Prezi CEO Is Betting Remote Meetings Will Be Better Than In-Person
Five minutes with Jim Szafranski about why virtual meetings won’t go away with office returns and how the company is trying to make them a better place to actually get work done.
Prezi Chief Executive Officer Jim Szafranski
Photographer: PreziThe message “Do you have any weekend plans?” moves across the screen image in oversized lettering, appearing in undulating waves over the head of Jim Szafranski , the chief executive officer of Prezi Inc.
Such attention-grabbing screen text — in this case at the start of my virtual interview with Szafranski — is just one of the features of Prezi Video, a tool launched in 2019 and now used by over 200,000 companies and other organizations. The internet-based presentation software — an alternative to Microsoft’s Power Point product — allows virtual meeting participants to share feedback, answer questions and edit charts in a more interactive way than screen sharing.