Zoom Video Communications 
Cisco Systems 
Production wraps this week in Hungary on “Blade of the 47 Ronin,” a sequel to Universal’s 2013 Japanese-themed action classic “47 Ronin.” The new movie represents a substantial revamp that emphasizes Asian fantasy heroes and female characters and addresses some of the cultural criticisms of the previous Keanu Reeves-starring picture.The action is moved forward by some 300 years to present-day Budapest, which is intended as a metaphor for East-West confluence, and where a meeting of the five Samurai clans is...
Zoom Video Communications
Eric
Yuan
Founder / Chairman / CEO
The pandemic lockdown turned Zoom into an essential communication tool for millions around the globe virtually overnight, leaving Yuan to figure out what to do with that windfall success. In July 2021, he acquired cloud-based customer service software provider Five9 in a $14.7 billion all-stock deal, with the aim of expanding Zoom into the call-center market. A native of China, Yuan moved to the Silicon Valley in 1997 and became one of the first 20 hires at conferencing startup WebEx, which was acquired by Cisco in 2007. When Cisco turned down his idea for a new videoconferencing platform, he left to launch Zoom in 2011. The company went public in 2019 and brought in $623 million in revenue that year. That number is projected to top $3.78 billion in 2021.
