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1970s initial public offerings

  • WalmartOn the 2nd of July 1962, Sam Walton opened the first Wal-Mart Discount City store at 719 W. Walnut Street in Rogers, Arkansas.
  • ComcastIn 1963, Ralph J. Roberts and two partners bought American Cable Systems for $500,000. The operation started in Tupelo, Mississippi with just five channels…
  • FedExFrederick W. Smith wrote a term paper at Yale University in 1965 that proposed a revolutionary delivery system. His professor gave the idea an F, claiming it…
  • AMDJerry Sanders stood at the edge of a new world on the 1st of May 1969. He incorporated Advanced Micro Devices with seven colleagues from Fairchild…
  • KiaKia began its life in May 1944 as Kyungsung Precision Industry, a small workshop crafting steel tubing and bicycle parts.
  • IntelOn the 18th of July 1968, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce stood in a small office in Mountain View, California, to incorporate a new company.