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Digital Transformation to the Information Superhighway
Now that we’re all familiar with the brand and its virtual conference experience, a remarkable start to what we’re going to explore here begins with noting that Zoom ended April, 2020, hosting 300,000,000 daily meeting participants.
That’s a number without context so let’s give it some. Just 5 years ago, Zoom hosted 40,000,000 users, just shy of two years before reaching a valuation of $1 billion as Sequoia Capital invested $100 million. That valuation found its way to just short of $16 billion as the company went public in April 2019.
Welcome to The Information Age
The Information Age is the historic period of humanity beginning in the late 20th century, characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry spawned by the Industrial Revolution. The onset of the era in which we find ourselves is largely associated with the development of the transistor but really dawned is our economy found information technology.
Begging a question… how well have you found information technology?
The transistor, invented by the engineers Walter Houser Brattain and John…
