Curated category
2014 mergers and acquisitions
- GameTrailersGameTrailers launched in 2002, founded by Geoffrey R. Grotz and Brandon Jones, and quickly became one of the internet's primary destinations for video game…
- ChryslerChrysler, the automaker founded in 1925 from the ruins of the Maxwell Motor Company, has survived bankruptcy twice, a wartime conversion to tanks and…
- Double Helix GamesDouble Helix Games arrived on the map not through a founding story but through a collision of two older ones. On the 9th of October 2007, Foundation 9…
- ForbesForbes magazine was born on the 15th of September 1917, the product of an unlikely partnership between a financial columnist and a publishing executive. B. C.
- Rooster TeethRooster Teeth Productions launched in April 2003 with a web series set in a box canyon, two squads of soldiers arguing about almost nothing.
- Madman EntertainmentMadman Entertainment began not with a film studio, not with a cinema, but with a mail-order catalogue. In 1996, two Australians named Tim Anderson and Paul…
- Twitch (service)Twitch is an American live-streaming platform that began its life in June 2011 not as a standalone product, but as a calculated spin-off carved out of a…
- M. E. SharpeM. E. Sharpe, Inc. began in 1958 with a very specific mission: to bring Russian social science and humanities scholarship to English-speaking readers.
- Google DeepMindDemis Hassabis and Shane Legg met at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London in 2010. They established DeepMind Technologies…
- Kadokawa CorporationKadokawa Corporation began not as a media empire but as a small postwar publishing house with a mission: to revitalize Japanese culture through books.
- FromSoftwareFromSoftware, Inc. began life not in the world of dragons and darkness, but in the far more prosaic territory of business software.