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VIDEOCONFERENCING EVANGELIST Krish Ramakrishnan LIVESTREAMER In 2009, Ramakrishnan co-founded BlueJeans Network, a cloud-based videoconferencing startup. TWO GUYS AND A POWERPOINT Ramakrishnan and his partner had no experience in videoconferencing, but they’d had enough successful business ventures to raise money for this one. MAJOR CARRIER Telecom giant Verizon acquired BlueJeans in May 2020 for an undisclosed sum. Where did the original idea for BlueJeans come from? In 2009, my co-founder, Alagu Periyannan, and I were thinking about why video, which is essentially a communications technology, was not interoperable with anything else. You could make a phone call from any device to any other device. The communications industry figured that out. The videoconferencing industry did not. We felt that businesses could benefit from interoperability, because that’s what communications is all about. We thought, what if we can create a cloud-based video…