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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 18: Zoom founder Eric Yuan poses in front of the Nasdaq building as the screen shows the logo of the video-conferencing software company Zoom after the opening bell ceremony ...
Former logo (2014-2022) Zoom was founded by Eric Yuan, a former corporate vice president for Cisco Webex. [6] He left Cisco in April 2011 with 40 engineers to start a new company, [2] originally named Saasbee, Inc. [7] The company had trouble finding investors because many people thought the videotelephony market was already saturated. [7]
A beta version of Zoom that could host conferences with only up to 15 video participants was launched on August 21, 2012. [8] On January 25, 2013, version 1.0 of the program was released with an increase in the number of participants per conference to 25. [9] By the end of its first month, Zoom had 400,000 users.
From multimedia learning (MML) theory, David Roberts has developed a large group lecture practice using PowerPoint based on the use of full-slide images in conjunction with a reduction of visible text (all text can be placed in the notes view' section of PowerPoint). [14] The method has been applied and evaluated in 9 disciplines.
A web-based slide show is a slide show which can be played (viewed or presented) using a web browser. Some web based slide shows are generated from presentation software and may be difficult to change (usually unintentionally so). Others offer templates allowing the slide show to be easily edited and changed.
In contemporary operation, PowerPoint is used to create a file (called a "presentation" or "deck") containing a sequence of pages (called "slides" in the app) which usually have a consistent style (from template masters), and which may contain information imported from other apps or created in PowerPoint, including text, bullet lists, tables ...
In 2011, he pitched a new smartphone-friendly video conferencing system to Cisco management. [20] When the idea was rejected, Yuan left Cisco to establish his own company, Zoom Communications. [10] In 2019, Zoom became a public company via an initial public offering, [21] at which time Yuan became a billionaire.
The LCD system did not have a light source of its own: it was built on a large "plate" that sat on top of the projector in place of transparencies. This provided a stop-gap solution in the era when the computer was not yet a universal display medium, creating a market for LCD projectors before their current main use became popular.