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Zoom was always fishy to me. When covid hit, everyone required virtual meetings and boom, out of nowhere zoom became a thing. Not even google meet or microsoft teams, it was some random company
Zoom existed since 2013 and was built by an ex.cisco engineer who wanted a better ui for webex but got stonewalled. It just rode the wave of the first apps on iphones.
It exploded during covid because it could scale faster than on-premise and was easier to use with better sound/video quality.
It could have been Skype, but Microsoft ran that into the ground years before.
Right time, right tech, right place. Nothing sinister.
Very interesting, thanks for the context
Wired did a good writeup in 2020