Paid acquisition
Paid advertising as a material source of demand.
Counts as evidence: The company describes paid marketing as a meaningful acquisition channel.
Who ran it
Zoom · Sales routed by deal size, land and expand · 2016 to 2020
Paid acquisition SupportingTargeted online and out-of-home advertising complemented the viral model. Yuan describes doubling down only where organic growth already showed up, rather than buying leads first.