"Given that many K-12 schools are starting closing, we decided to offer Zoom access to all K-12 schools in the country starting tomorrow," Yuan wrote in an email overnight. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, seen here in his San Jose office, now works from home like his 2,700-plus employees. Another feature that has moved up on the product pipeline came from feedback from a professor using Zoom to host lectures for his class. Yuan says the decision to make free Zoom use unlimited in affected regions – first China, and now Italy and in K-12 schools – was unanimous among his direct reports. (For more on Zoom’s rise, see Forbes’ feature story from last year: Zoom, Zoom, Zoom!)

Source: Forbes March 13, 2020 16:19 UTC