Curated category
1999 initial public offerings
- MarketWatchThe marketwatch.com domain name registered on the 30th of July 1997. The website launched exactly three months later on the 30th of October 1997.
- Goldman SachsIn 1869, Marcus Goldman opened a one-room basement office next to a coal chute in New York City. He began by financing commercial paper for small…
- NvidiaOn the 5th of April 1993, three engineers named Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem established Nvidia in Santa Clara, California.
- Future plcChris Anderson opened Future Publishing in Somerton, Somerset, England, during 1985. The company launched with a single magazine called Amstrad Action.
- TheStreetJim Cramer and Marty Peretz launched TheStreet in 1996 as a financial news website. The company went public in May 1999 under the leadership of CEO Kevin…
- BlackRockLarry Fink stood in a New York office in 1988 with $5 million in credit and a vision to fix what he had broken. He had lost $90 million as head of First…
- EnixYasuhiro Fukushima stood at the helm of Eidansha Boshu Service Center on the 22nd of September 1975. The company began as a publisher for real estate…