Zoom accessible by many people: Aparna Bawa, COO

No longer are C-suite executives of India’s multi-billion-dollar corporations' jet-setting around the country, as the pandemic has given a fillip to virtual meetings. This had prompted

private jet operators in the country to label video conferencing platforms such as Zoom and Webex as the “new private jets” for CXOs. However, Zoom’s chief operating officer Aparna Bawa

doesn’t concur.

“I don’t think we are as expensive as a private jet; more cost-efficient if you will,” quipps Bawa on the sidelines of a recent interaction with Fortune India. “We are much more accessible

by everyone and that’s the beauty of Zoom,” says Bawa. “My mother-in-law, unbeknownst to me, signed up for Zoom, got her account and is having meetings with her friends, going to funerals

and weddings (virtually),” Bawa says while emphasising the platform’s easy accessibility to people. “That’s what I love about this company. It’s so accessible by so many different people:

sophisticated, non-sophisticated, young and old. Sometimes I even think that my kids know how to use it better than I do.”