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Companies based in Manhattan

  • Paramount GlobalParamount Global paid $16 million to settle a lawsuit from President Trump.
  • PfizerIn 2025, a single Pfizer medicine called Eliquis brought in 7.9 billion dollars. That was 13 percent of the company's revenue for the year. Pfizer is an American pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation, and its headquarters sit at The…
  • JPMorgan ChaseJPMorgan Chase began in 1799 as a water company that never laid pipe. Aaron Burr hid a bank clause in its charter.
  • VerizonVerizon began in 1984 as a piece of a broken-up phone monopoly. It was one of seven Baby Bells.
  • Goldman SachsGoldman Sachs began in 1869 in a one-room basement office next to a coal chute.
  • Morgan StanleyMUFG paid $9 billion for a stake in Morgan Stanley with one paper check. Banks were closed for Columbus Day.
  • Columbia RecordsColumbia Records signed Bob Dylan first as a harmonica player, and some executives called him "Hammond's folly".
  • Sony Music PublishingMichael Jackson told Paul McCartney he would one day buy the Beatles' songs. He did, in 1985.
  • TumblrTumblr sold in 2019 for less than $3 million. Yahoo had paid $1.1 billion for it in 2013.
  • BlackRockBlackRock began with one trader's $90 million loss. Larry Fink lost it at First Boston, then built a firm in 1988.
  • Hearst CommunicationsAt 23, William Randolph Hearst took over his father's San Francisco newspaper. It grew into Hearst Communications.
  • Bloomberg L.P.Bloomberg L.P. began with a $10 million buyout check in 1981.
  • Fox Broadcasting CompanyFox launched in 1986 with a Joan Rivers talk show and mostly weak UHF stations. It topped CBS in 2008.
  • Tiffany & Co.Tiffany & Co. started in 1837 as a stationery shop, not a jeweler. Just $1,000 from a cotton mill owner funded it.

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