User: What is the company zoom?
Assistant: Zoom is a video communication protocol used by many companies today.  Zoom has been used by school to conduct at home schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Zoom is also used by big Fortune 500 corporations to conduct business meetings internally with employees and externally with customers and other accounts.  The virtual interaction offered by zoom is a great alternative to save costs on in-person meetings where physical travel is required.  The company was founded in 2011 and has about 8500 employees as of 2023.