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In A Year Defined By Hardship, Zoom Came Out On Top

NPR | By Shannon Bond

Published March 19, 2021 at 5:06 AM EDT

One business that was a clear winner during the pandemic: Zoom. How did a Silicon Valley upstart beat out the tech powerhouses in video chat?

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Shannon Bond is a business correspondent at NPR, covering technology and how Silicon Valley's biggest companies are transforming how we live, work and communicate.

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