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Companies listed on the Nasdaq

  • MicrosoftThe January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics put a microcomputer called the Altair 8800 on its cover, and two childhood friends saw an opening.
  • 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…
  • ComcastComcast Corporation began not as a broadcasting giant but as a small cable operator in Tupelo, Mississippi, with five channels and 12,000 customers.
  • Marriott InternationalMarriott International today spans 144 countries, holds over 9,000 properties, and controls more rooms than any other hotel company on earth.
  • 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.
  • 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)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.
  • 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 GroupWarner Music Group traces its origins to a problem a film studio did not know it had. In 1957, Tab Hunter, one of Warner Bros.' contracted actors, scored a…
  • 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…
  • ExelonExelon Corporation is the largest regulated electric utility in the United States, serving approximately 10 million customers across six states and the…
  • AMDAdvanced Micro Devices was founded on the 1st of May, 1969, by Jerry Sanders and seven colleagues who had grown frustrated inside Fairchild Semiconductor.
  • BaiduBaidu, whose name comes from the last line of a classical Chinese poem, holds a place in China's internet landscape that few Western companies can match in…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • AirbnbAirbnb began not with venture capital or a business school pitch, but with an air mattress on the floor of a San Francisco apartment.
  • Ziff DavisZiff Davis traces its roots to 1920, when William B. Ziff opened a Chicago advertising agency that placed ads for national brands like Procter and Gamble in…
  • Electronic ArtsElectronic Arts began with a meeting in February 1982, when Trip Hawkins walked into the offices of Sequoia Capital and pitched a company he was calling…
  • BilibiliBilibili was born on the 26th of June 2009, not as a video platform but as a fan shrine. A young user of a rival site named Xu Yi wanted to build something…
  • 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 CorporationScholastic Corporation began as a four-page magazine handed out to students in 50 high schools near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.