Used For

• +**Your Google Meet keeps crashing with more than 20 people** → Zoom handles 300 participants without breaking a sweat, no awkward "let me restart" moments
• +**Client demos turn into tech support calls because screen sharing is broken** → One-click screen sharing that actually shows what you want, when you want it
• +**Post-meeting everyone asks "what did we decide?"** → AI summaries pull out action items and key decisions automatically
• +Breakout rooms that don't require a PhD to set up - split 50 people into groups with three clicks
• +Recording with auto-transcripts so you can prove what was actually said in that heated discussion

Best For

• >Your team is tired of meetings that start 10 minutes late because someone can't get their audio working
• >You're doing client demos and can't afford technical disasters that make you look incompetent
• >Remote team scattered across time zones needs face-to-face time that doesn't require a CS degree

Not For

• -Small teams under 5 people who rarely meet - you'll hit the 40-minute free limit mid-conversation and have to upgrade or switch
• -Privacy-obsessed companies wanting everything on their own servers - it's cloud-only, no exceptions
• -Penny-pinching startups - the useful features start at $16/user/month and storage costs add up fast

Pairs With

• *Slack (where meeting links get shared and people complain about back-to-back Zooms)
• *Google Calendar (for scheduling meetings that actually start on time because the link just works)
• *Notion (where AI meeting summaries get pasted so you remember what you agreed to do)
• *Salesforce (because sales demos over Zoom close more deals than phone calls)
• *Microsoft Teams (the corporate alternative that IT wants you to use but everyone ignores)

The Catch

• !The 5GB cloud storage fills up after about 10 hours of HD recordings - you'll be deleting old meetings or paying overages within a month
• !Managing 50+ participants manually is chaos - you'll spend 10 minutes just muting people without admin controls
• !Recordings auto-delete after 150 days, so that important client call from 6 months ago? Gone forever

Bottom Line

The video call tool that won because it just works - even your most tech-phobic colleague can join without losing their mind.