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Companies listed on the Nasdaq
- MicrosoftOn the 4th of April 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen established Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their first product was a BASIC interpreter for the…
- Paramount SkydanceOn the 7th of August 2025, David Ellison officially formed Paramount Skydance Corporation. This new entity emerged from a three-way merger between Paramount…
- Talen EnergyTalen Energy Corporation emerged from the competitive power generation business of PPL Corporation in 2015. The company was formed when this business unit…
- ComcastIn 1963, Ralph J. Roberts and two partners bought American Cable Systems for $500,000. The operation started in Tupelo, Mississippi with just five channels…
- Marriott InternationalJohn Willard Marriott opened a root beer stand in Washington, D.C. on the 13th of August 1927. He and his wife Alice ran the small business from their home…
- Alphabet Inc.On the 10th of August 2015, Google announced plans to create a new public holding company called Alphabet Inc. Larry Page made this announcement in a blog…
- 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.On the 1st of April 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak established Apple Computer Company in the garage of Jobs's parents' home on Crist Drive in Los Altos…
- HasbroOn the 6th of December 1923, three Polish-Jewish immigrant brothers named Henry, Hillel, and Herman Hassenfeld founded a company called Hassenfeld Brothers…
- Amazon (company)Jeff Bezos stood in the converted garage of his home in Bellevue, Washington, on the 5th of July 1994. He had just relocated from New York City to start an…
- 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…
- Warner Music GroupIn 1958, Warner Bros. Records opened its doors above the film studio's machine shop on 3701 Warner Boulevard in Burbank, California.
- DraftKingsJason Robins, Matthew Kalish, and Paul Liberman launched DraftKings in 2012 from inside Liberman's house. The trio were former employees of Vistaprint who…
- DoorDashIn January 2013, four students from Stanford University walked into a Palo Alto office to launch their new venture. Tony Xu, Stanley Tang, Andy Fang, and…
- ExelonIn October 2000, two distinct utility companies joined forces to create Exelon Corporation. PECO Energy Company and Unicom Corporation merged in a move that…
- AMDJerry Sanders stood at the edge of a new world on the 1st of May 1969. He incorporated Advanced Micro Devices with seven colleagues from Fairchild…
- BaiduRobin Li developed RankDex in 1996 while working at IDD Information Services. This search engine used hyperlinks to measure website quality, a technique…
- CoinbaseBrian Armstrong, a former engineer at Airbnb, launched Coinbase in June 2012. He enrolled his startup into the Y Combinator incubator program and received an…
- IntelOn the 18th of July 1968, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce stood in a small office in Mountain View, California, to incorporate a new company.
- AirbnbIn August 2008, the website Airbedandbreakfast.com launched with a simple promise. It offered short-term living quarters and breakfast for travelers unable…
- Ziff DavisIn 1920, William Bernard Ziff Sr. established a Chicago advertising agency that secured national contracts for African American weekly newspapers.
- Electronic ArtsTrip Hawkins left Apple Inc. in February 1982 to launch a new venture called Amazin' Software. He met with Don Valentine of Sequoia Capital just months…
- 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.
- Scholastic CorporationMaurice R. Robinson stood near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1920 to launch a small publishing venture. The first publication was The Western Pennsylvania…