Zoom Video, the app that connects others around the world, the Covid-19 crisis, has barely happened, at least not in the United States. The lack of a start-up visa in the U.S. It makes it more likely that the next Zoom is not founded in the U.S.
When Eric Yuan, a college student in China, got tired of doing a 10-hour exercise to make a stop at his girlfriend. He came up with the concept of a video conferencing application.
After attending college, Yuan sought to paint in the United States, but came across a challenge: he was unable to obtain a visa. “I made the decision to come to the United States in the mid-1990s because of the Internet, which I knew was the wave of the future,” he said. “It was very hot here, but it had not yet taken off in China. The first time I applied myself for an American visa, I was turned down. I kept applying again and again for two years and, despite everything, I won my visa on the ninth attempt.
Yuan brought the technical delight forged to the United States. In China, he earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Shandong Institute of Business and Technology and a master’s degree in engineering control from the Chinese University of Mines and Technology.
In the United States, he worked for WebEx. When Cisco acquired the company in 2007, Yuan was named Vice President of Engineering at Cisco. In 2012, he left Cisco to create Zoom and created a team of 40 engineers.
The United States does not have a start-up visa for foreign-born entrepreneurs. However, a report through the National Foundation for American Policy found that the federal commissioning program in Canada has helped create jobs, as has a program that runs throughout the province of Quebec. The UK has advanced its programme to compete with Silicon Valley for entrepreneurs. Australia and New Zealand have visa categories for start-ups and, through experimentation, their governments seek to locate the policy mix to attract creators of foreign-born companies.
By the time Yuan started Zoom, he already had a permanent apartment (a green card). This is typical of an immigrant businessman. “Sometimes, under U.S. immigration law, there is no reliable way for foreign citizens to start a business and stay in the country after starting the business,” concluded a study by the National Foundation for American Immigrant Policy and a $1 billion start-up. As a result, successful immigrant sellers in the United States are nearly refugees or immigrants sponsored by the family and employer.
According to the examArray Zoom, one of the companies.
Zoom has grown “from a maximum of 10 million participants in daily meetings in December 2019 to more than two hundred million according to March Day,” writes Elizabeth Nolan Brown in Reason. “The generation of video conferences has helped keep others connected, hired and average healthy in those unprecedented times. ArrayArray Zoom has a crowd favorite since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.”
“Stories about lax knowledge privacy practices, video leaks and pirated meetings have made headlines. ArrayArray and are in fact valuable to maintain the highlight in media and privacy,” writes Brown, who sees an advertising solution to the problem. For its part, Zoom notes that “it was designed primarily for corporations – giant establishments with all IT (information technology)” and that “the use of Zoom exploded overnight. “”
“We didn’t design the product with the expectation that, in a few weeks, each and every user in the world would suddenly work, examine and socialize at home,” Yuan wrote in a blog post. In June, the company announced that it would cause all Zoom users to have end-to-end encryption.
There is no denying the importance of Zoom the Covid-19 crisis. “After the contagion of coronavirus ended with many daily life rituals, many of them reappeared in Zoom, a video calling service that exploded in popularity in a nearly completely enclosed country,” writes Drew Harwell of The Washington Post. “Marriages, funerals, corporate layoffs, kindergarten categories and official government meetings were broadcast on their platform.”
Zoom Video is valued at approximately $70 billion, with an inventory increase of more than 250% since the start of the pandemic, and employs about 2,500 people. Corporate products have become an important source of pro-public communication about the coronavirus pandemic, helping to facilitate everything from daily corporate meetings to remote Happy Hours and devout festive celebrations.
If Eric Yuan had not won a visa on his ninth attempt, the benefits that many Americans derive from Zoom have never materialized.
I am the Executive Director of the National Foundation for American Policy, a nonpartisan public policy organization aimed at trade, immigration, and
I am the executive director of the National Foundation for American Policy, a nonpartisan public policy studies organization focused on trade, immigration and similar issues founded in Arlington, Virginia. From August 2001 to January 2003, I was Executive Assistant Commissioner for Policy and Planning and an advisor to the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Before that, I spent four and a half years on Capitol Hill on the Senate Immigration Subcommittee, first for Senator Spencer Abraham and then as deputy director of the subcommittee for Senator Sam Brownback. I’ve published articles in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other publications. I’m from a nonfiction e-book called Immigration.