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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: commitment
19 Jun 2019 Acquired The Zoom IPO (with Santi Subotovsky)
“As you can tell from this clip, Eric is incredibly grounded, humble, and quite a different type of Silicon Valley CEO as we will see when we get into this episode.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- commitment
- Recorded
- 19 Jun 2019
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…I’m David Rosenthal. We are your hosts. To introduce our episode today, I want to play you a little clip from Emily Chang on Bloomberg TV. This is from the day of the Zoom IPO where she interviewed Eric Yuan, the founder and CEO of Zoom. As you can tell from this clip, Eric is incredibly grounded, humble, and quite a different type of Silicon Valley CEO as we will see when we get into this episode. That’s very exciting, but it’s also a lot of pressure. We’ve seen some of the recent IPOs like Lyft have a lot of volatility. Do you feel that pressure? I do because the price is too high. You think the price is too high? I think so. Anyway, yesterday we finalized the price to $36. Today, wow, there’s a bigger pump. It is [...] too, we just go back to work.…
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