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Zoom was a successful enterprise business pre-pandemic, but it was unequivocally the lockdowns that accelerated their growth and valuation. In one year they went from 10 million monthly meeting participants to over 350 million (https://www.vox.com/recode/21726260/zoom-microsoft-teams-vid...).

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which is what I said, the issue is claiming they wouldn't be a successful company without the pandemic.

They would not have had a market cap of more than $100 billion dollars without it

yeah, and MS wasn't successful before Azure, when their market cap ballooned.

Stop rationalizing bologna.

They grew during the pandemic, as did a lot of online services. They were a perfectly viable company before said pandemic.

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