Zoom
Verified“US-incorporated, founder-controlled, US-cloud-dependent video.”
- Listing
- Nasdaq: ZM
- Revenue
- $4.67B
- Employees
- ~7,412
- Founder voting power
- ~30%
17 = midpoint of Control 14 & Data 20
Sovereignty Quadrant
Control ↑ who owns & governs the company · Data → where your data lives. Every dot is a company — click to open it.
Every number below traces to 13 sourced facts across 8 independent sources, last verified 2026-06-12. 3 open questions hold confidence at 88% — they lower confidence, never the score.
Control ↑
Who legally and economically controls the company
Legal & Jurisdiction
12
Incorporated in Delaware and run from San Jose, California; the parent operating entity is fully US-domiciled with no EU operating-entity control. GDPR reaches it commercially but EU law does not govern the company itself.
Why 12? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
Zoom was originally incorporated in Delaware in April 2011 (as Saasbee, Inc.) and remains a Delaware corporation.
Wikipedia: Zoom Communications (citing 10-K) · as of 2025
Zoom's principal executive offices are at 55 Almaden Boulevard, 6th Floor, San Jose, California 95113.
Zoom 10-K filings (SEC EDGAR) · as of 2025-01-31
EU data stored in Zoom's European infrastructure may still be disclosed to US teams or under US law, reflecting that the controlling entity sits under US jurisdiction.
The Stack: Zoom EU data storage · as of 2023-06
Control & Ownership
15
Founder Eric Yuan controls roughly 30% of voting power via 10-vote Class B shares despite a far smaller economic stake; voting control, economic majority and listing are all US-centered on Nasdaq.
Why 15? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
Each Class A share has one vote and each Class B share has ten votes; as of the April 14, 2025 record date there were ~262.6M Class A and ~42.3M Class B shares outstanding.
Zoom 2025 DEF 14A (SEC EDGAR) · as of 2025-04-14
Eric Yuan's Class B holdings (reported ~21.6-22.5M shares) represented roughly 31% of aggregate combined voting power in recent filings, giving founder/insider voting control.
Zoom SC 13G/A (SEC EDGAR) · as of 2024
Zoom trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker ZM; economic ownership is dominated by US institutional investors.
Wikipedia: Zoom Communications · as of 2025
Data →
Where your data lives and who can reach it
Data & Infrastructure
22
Zoom offers EU data residency (Frankfurt and other EEA centers) for paying customers, but those run on US hyperscalers (chiefly AWS, plus Oracle), and account/diagnostic data plus CLOUD Act exposure keep it firmly US-tethered.
Why 22? 4 sourced facts · click to expand
Zoom's European data-storage clusters (e.g., Frankfurt) for Meetings, Webinars and Team Chat are hosted by AWS, not Zoom-owned EU-sovereign infrastructure.
The Stack: Zoom EU data storage · as of 2023-06
Even when EU storage is selected, Account Data and Diagnostic Data are still stored in the US, and data may transit US/opted-out data centers.
TechCrunch: Zoom local EU storage · as of 2023-06-06
AWS has stated that most of Zoom's workloads run on AWS rather than Oracle Cloud, underscoring dependence on US hyperscalers.
Data Center Dynamics · as of 2020
As a US provider, Zoom can be compelled under the US CLOUD Act and US legal process to produce content regardless of storage location.
Zoom Government Requests Guide · as of 2025
Operations & People
18
Headquartered in San Jose with US founder-CEO leadership and USD reporting; substantial international/R&D workforce exists but the company is US-centered in HQ, leadership and reporting currency.
Why 18? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
Zoom is headquartered in San Jose, California, and led by founder, Chairman and CEO Eric Yuan.
Wikipedia: Zoom Communications · as of 2025
Zoom reported revenue of approximately $4.67 billion for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025, reported in US dollars.
Zoom FY2025 10-K (SEC EDGAR) · as of 2025-01-31
Zoom employed approximately 7,412 people as of fiscal 2025, with leadership and primary operations US-centered.
Wikipedia: Zoom Communications (citing 10-K) · as of 2025
Aligned to the EU Commission’s official Cloud Sovereignty Framework (SEAL, Jun 2026) →
What we don’t know
3 open questions — they lower confidence, never the score
- ?
What share of Zoom's workforce and engineering sits inside the EU versus the US and China?
Would refine the operations score; current view is US-centered at HQ/leadership but international footprint is material.
- ?
For EU-residency customers, what exact proportion of real-time media and metadata is processed/transits outside the EEA?
Affects the infra score — Zoom states transit may cross opted-out centers but provides no clear percentage.
- ?
What is Eric Yuan's precise current combined voting-power percentage after recent share transfers and sales?
Third-party figures range ~25-31%; does not change that founder/insiders hold voting control, but exact number is uncertain.
EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework lens
The EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework (SEAL) is designed to assess cloud service providers; applying it to Zoom is an analogous mapping for transparency, not a certification or an official SEAL assessment.
Strategic
US-headquartered, founder-controlled, Nasdaq-listed; strategy set under US jurisdiction with no EU strategic control.
Legal & jurisdictional
Delaware incorporation; subject to US law including the CLOUD Act and US legal process regardless of EU storage.
Data & AI
EU residency offered for some Meeting/Webinar/Chat data, but account and diagnostic data stay in the US and data may transit US centers.
Operational
Core operations, leadership and USD reporting are US-centered; EU presence is sales and regional support.
Supply chain
Critical infrastructure dependency on US hyperscalers (AWS, Oracle) for hosting EU and global workloads.
Technological
Proprietary US-controlled platform on US cloud; no EU-sovereign technology stack or open EU-controlled alternative.
Security & compliance
Holds common certifications and offers customer-managed encryption keys (BYOK) and sovereignty controls, but compliance is offered, not jurisdictionally guaranteed.
Environmental sustainability
Not evaluated in this profile; depends largely on underlying hyperscaler data-center sustainability.
EU alternatives
Norway-based video API/embedded meetings; EU/EEA-aligned, though Norway is EEA not EU and some infra may use cloud providers.
French secure video conferencing, CSPN-certified and SecNumCloud-qualified; EU-sovereign hosting positioning.
Open-source video that can be self-hosted in the EU for full control; the hosted 8x8 service itself is US-owned.
How the method works
Methodology v2 (provisional): the score is the midpoint of two axes — Control (who owns and governs the company) and Data (where your data lives and who can reach it). Each axis is scored only on verified evidence; unknowns reduce confidence, never the score. Every input below is sourced; the weights and judgments are open to challenge.
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- 2026-06-12 — Initial golden profile, authored from primary sources (human + AI review).
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Verified 2026-06-12 · Human + AI joint review (sources independently checked) · Methodology