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Defense companies of the United States

MicrosoftBill Gates claimed he had a working BASIC program before he had written any of it.
GoogleGoogle's name is a misspelling of googol, a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The search engine was first nicknamed BackRub.
Lockheed MartinLockheed Martin Corporation once supplied NASA with software built around US Customary force units, when metric units were expected. The Mars Climate Orbiter was lost. The spacecraft had cost $193 million to develop, and its loss came to…
ChryslerChrysler built the rocket that launched Alan Shepard into space. It also nearly went broke making family sedans.
General MotorsGeneral Motors was started by a man who insisted he disliked cars. William C. Durant had built horse-drawn carriages.
Oracle CorporationOracle Corporation may owe its name to a coin toss. According to executive Mike Humphries, co-founder Bob Miner once told him that the young company had two offers on the table. One was a database project for the Central Intelligence…
JeepIn 1940, the U.S. Army asked 135 companies for a prototype in 49 days. Only two replied, and the result became the Jeep.
Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services began as a side effect of Amazon trying to fix itself.
Ford Motor CompanyFord's first president was a banker, not Henry Ford. Investors wanted John S. Gray in charge to calm their fears.
General DynamicsGeneral Dynamics traces back to a single $150,000 submarine the U.S. Navy bought in 1900.
Anduril IndustriesIn 2019, Bloomberg News gave Anduril Industries a label that few startups would want: "Tech's Most Controversial Startup." The American company was only two years old. It had been cofounded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey, the creator of the…