How Zoom Zoomed Up to Become a Billion Dollar Tech Company

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The video-conferencing software company will release its first quarterly results as a public company Thursday after the market closes.

The company, which went public in April 2019, has a market cap that's more than three times that of Beyond Meat (BYND) - Get Report  - which has seen a fourfold increase in its own share price since its IPO in May 2019.

Zoom credits much of its success to its "video-first cloud architecture." The company was founded in 2011 by Eric Yuan, a lead engineer from Cisco Systems (CSCO) - Get Report  , and built its platform in a cloud computing environment from day one.

Watch the video to find out how this video-conferencing software company zoomed up to become one of the most richly valued tech companies.

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