Endeavor

6 2 0 19 E N D E AVO R C ATA LY S T I N V E S TO R M E E T I N G ERIC YUAN Founder and CEO, Zoom SANTI SU BOTOVSK Y General Partner, Emergence Capital Eric S. Yuan founded Zoom in 2011. Prior to starting Zoom, Eric was Corporate Vice President of Engineering at Cisco, where he was responsible for Cisco's collaboration software development. As one of the founding engineers and Vice President of Engineering at WebEx, Eric was the heart and soul of the WebEx product from 1997 to 2011. Eric proudly grew the WebEx team from 10 engineers to more than 800 worldwide, and contributed to revenue growth from $0 to more than $800M. Eric is a named inventor on 11 issued and 20 pending patents in real time collaboration. In 2017, Eric was added to the Business Insider list of the 52 Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech. Eric is a graduate of the Stanford University Executive Program. Eric holds a bachelor of science in applied mathematics from Shandong University of Science and Technology, China. Santi took an uncommon path into venture. Originally from Argentina, Santi fell into entrepreneurship after founding AXG Tecnonexo, a SaaS e-learning company. He and his cofounder bet their company on a U.S. expansion plan, moving to a studio apartment in Miami and then to Washington, D.C. Santi joined the team at Emergence in 2010. During his time at Emergence, he has led the firm's investment in Zoom Video Communications, where he currently sits on the board. He's also led investments in Chorus.ai, Civitas Learning, Clearbanc, Crunchbase, Restorando (acquired by TripAdvisor), SimpleLegal, and Xapo. Santi is a Kauffman Fellow and an Endeavor Entrepreneur. He is also the founder of Puente Labs, a non-profit supporting entrepreneurs from Latin America. Santi received a B.S. in Economics from Universidad de San Andrés and an M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard Business School.

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