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Companies in the Dow Jones Global Titans 50

  • MicrosoftThe January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics put a microcomputer called the Altair 8800 on its cover, and two childhood friends saw an opening.
  • BPBP p.l.c. began not as an oil giant but as a gamble on a remote patch of Persian ground. In May 1908, a group of British geologists struck oil at Masjed…
  • JPMorgan ChaseJPMorgan Chase traces its roots to a political maneuver so brazen it would be called corruption today. In 1799, Aaron Burr wanted to found a bank in New York…
  • WalmartWalmart operates in 20 countries and employs 2.1 million people, making it the largest private employer on earth. In February 2026, it became the first…
  • AB InBevAB InBev, formally Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, holds the title of the largest brewer in the world, a position built not through slow organic growth but…
  • Alphabet Inc.Alphabet Inc. was born on the 2nd of October 2015, not as a startup or a spinoff, but as a deliberate act of corporate reinvention by two of the most…
  • Meta PlatformsThe Facebook logo appeared on a billboard welcoming the company to Nasdaq in 2012. This moment marked the end of a four-year journey that began when Mark…
  • Apple Inc.Apple Inc. started with two men selling everything they owned. Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen Bus. Steve Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator.
  • Amazon (company)Amazon began, on the 5th of July 1994, in the converted garage of a house in Bellevue, Washington, under a name most people have never heard: Cadabra.
  • MastercardMastercard began not as a corporation but as a defensive alliance. In 1966, Karl H. Hinke, an executive vice president at Marine Midland Bank, summoned…
  • General ElectricGeneral Electric's logo is a blue circle with four curved white lines that suggest the blades of a fan, wrapped around cursive letters spelling GE. Arthur L.
  • AmgenIn April 1980, a small group of venture capitalists gathered in Thousand Oaks to establish Applied Molecular Genetics. This entity would soon change its name…
  • IBMIBM, formally the International Business Machines Corporation, was born in Endicott, New York, on the 16th of June 1911, when a financier named Charles…
  • NvidiaNvidia was founded at a Denny's roadside diner on Berryessa Road in East San Jose, where three engineers sat down in late 1992 and agreed to build a company…
  • IntelIntel Corporation was founded on the 18th of July 1968, in a Mountain View garage of ambition by two men who had just walked away from one of the most…
  • The Coca-Cola CompanyThe Coca-Cola Company was born from a personal crisis. In May 1886, a pharmacist named John Stith Pemberton was searching for a way out of a morphine…
  • Visa Inc.Visa Inc. processes more transactions in a single year than most people could count in a lifetime. In 2025, its global network handled 257.5 billion…