Is Zoom Chinese? CEO Eric Yuan calls Zoom American amid allegations of having Chinese link

Zoom app is w amongst most loved apps by users worldwide during this time of Coronavirus pandemic. success of video calling social media app can be dedicated to strong need to connect with people from afar as everyone is practicing social distancing.

Zoom app has become an essential medium to conduct seminars, classes, office conferences, group calls with friends, and more. It has grown to be a go-to app for many people as it enables users to d 100 participants in a group call. Apart from that, users can join a video call without signing in to app, users can also share screen easily with friends, and more.

However, recently, app has been facing a lot of backlashes as many reports state it to be originating from China. CEO of Zoom recently revealed all facts related to origin of company and where it belongs. 

Is Zoom Chinese?

Zoom app which is w one of most used video-calling applications is developed by a tech company called Zoom Video Communications. company is founded by CEO Eric Yuan. Zoom app was launched in year 2012 and it currently has more than 100 million downlos. 

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In a blog post by Zoom CEO, Eric Yuan, he said that Zoom Video Communications is an American organisation. Refuting allegations of video conference app having a Chinese link, Yuan wrote that Zoom has operations and employees like any or multinational techlogy companies in China where se companies operate as subsidiaries of US parent company. 

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Zoom origin country

Calling his app American, Eric Yuan also stated that Zoom app was founded and hequartered in California, incorporated in Delaware, and publicly tred on NASDAQ. He also explained that multinational company functions almost similar to all its peers having operations, employees, and engineers in China, as per blog post. On personal front, Zoom CEO revealed that he moved to USA in 1997 and gained US citizenship in year 2007. 

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