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Companies involved in the Gaza war
- MicrosoftThe January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics put a microcomputer called the Altair 8800 on its cover, and two childhood friends saw an opening.
- GoogleGoogle began in January 1996 as a research project by two PhD students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- BlackRockBlackRock, Inc. manages $12.5 trillion in assets as of 2025 , a sum larger than the entire economy of any country except the United States and China.
- PalantírPalantir Technologies takes its name from a "seeing stone" in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium: a crystal orb through which distant events could be observed…
- General DynamicsIsaac Leopold Rice bought the Holland Torpedo Boat Company from John Philip Holland in 1899. This transaction marked the beginning of what would become a…
- Boston Consulting GroupBoston Consulting Group was born inside a bank. In 1963, Bruce Henderson did not set out to build one of the most influential consulting firms in history.
- Palantir TechnologiesIn 2003, Peter Thiel and three Stanford colleagues established a company they named Palantir after the seeing stones in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium.