Episode 01: From teaching English in a tiny Japanese fishing village to leading growth at a $32B unicorn

Ever wonder what it’s like to be strapped to a rocket-ship blasting into the stratosphere? Besides actually going into space, being part of the Zoom team over the last year and a half is the next closest thing. In January 2020, Zoom had about 10 million daily participants and about 100 million meeting minutes in a month. Three short months later, in April 2020, the company had 300 million daily participants, and was on pace to have 3 trillion meeting minutes for the year. So that's 30x and 2,500x growth respectively. Wow.

Join us as we speak with Abe Smith, the Head of International at Zoom, who has been guiding the company’s international growth initiatives. Abe is also a long-time international business leader, who found what he labels as his “calling” for global business that have taken him to the likes of Webex, Cisco, Mindjet, Badgeville, Oracle and Cision, before joining Zoom.

In the episode, Abe shares more about the keys to Zoom’s growth, how he developed a passion for international business and advice he has for future international business leaders (or “interpreneurs,” as we call them).

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