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Companies based in Manhattan

  • Paramount GlobalThe year 1912 marked the founding of Famous Players Film Company, which would eventually evolve into Paramount Pictures.
  • JPMorgan ChaseAaron Burr opened the Bank of the Manhattan Company on the 1st of September 1799. The bank began as a water carrier before transforming into a financial…
  • VerizonIn 1983, the US Department of Justice reached a settlement with AT&T to dismantle its monopoly. This legal action dissolved the Bell System into seven…
  • 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…
  • Morgan StanleyThe firm formally opened its doors for business on the 16th of September 1935, at 2 Wall Street in New York City. This specific date marked the birth of…
  • Columbia RecordsOn the 15th of January 1889, a stenographer named Edward D. Easton founded the Columbia Phonograph Company in Washington, D.C.
  • Sony Music PublishingIn 1958, Associated Television acquired a fifty percent stake in Pye Records. Lew Grade founded the British television broadcasting company that year.
  • TumblrIn 2006, a software consultant named David Karp found himself with a two-week gap between contracts at his company, Davidville.
  • 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…
  • Hearst CommunicationsIn 1880, George Hearst bought the San Francisco Daily Examiner for a mining entrepreneur and U.S. senator. He turned that paper over to his son William…
  • Bloomberg L.P.Michael Bloomberg walked away from Salomon Brothers in 1981 with a $10 million partnership settlement. He used that money to launch Innovative Market…
  • Fox Broadcasting CompanyOn the 9th of October 1986, the Fox Broadcasting Company officially launched its signal from a cluster of six major U.S.
  • Tiffany & Co.In 1837, Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young opened a stationery store at 259 Broadway in Lower Manhattan with just $1,000 from Charles's father.