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Multinational companies headquartered in the United States

  • 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…
  • Nike, Inc.Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman established Blue Ribbon Sports on the 25th of January 1964. The pair operated out of Eugene, Oregon as a distributor for…
  • The Walt Disney CompanyOn the 16th of October 1923, two brothers named Walt and Roy Disney signed a contract in Kansas City to start a business called Disney Brothers Cartoon…
  • GoogleIn August 1998, a check for $100,000 arrived at the front porch of David Cheriton's home in Palo Alto. Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems…
  • JPMorgan ChaseAaron Burr opened the Bank of the Manhattan Company on the 1st of September 1799. The bank began as a water carrier before transforming into a financial…
  • WalmartOn the 2nd of July 1962, Sam Walton opened the first Wal-Mart Discount City store at 719 W. Walnut Street in Rogers, Arkansas.
  • 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…
  • Warner Bros. DiscoveryThe Warner brothers Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack opened their film studio on the 4th of April 1923 in Hollywood. They built an empire that would eventually…
  • 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…
  • General MotorsWilliam C. Durant stood in Flint, Michigan, on the 16th of September 1908 and signed papers to create a holding company for Buick.
  • 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…
  • Bank of AmericaOn the 17th of October 1904, Amadeo Giannini opened a small storefront in San Francisco called Bank of Italy. He targeted Italian immigrants who faced…
  • 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…
  • FedExFrederick W. Smith wrote a term paper at Yale University in 1965 that proposed a revolutionary delivery system. His professor gave the idea an F, claiming it…
  • 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…
  • MastercardIn 1966, Karl H. Hinke, an executive vice president at Marine Midland Bank, asked representatives of several other banks to meet him in Buffalo, New York.
  • General ElectricOn the 24th of April 1892, two rival electrical companies merged to form General Electric. The Edison General Electric Company and the Thomson-Houston…
  • 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…
  • YahooIn January 1994, two electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University named Jerry Yang and David Filo created a website called Jerry and…
  • IBMOn the 16th of June 1911, four separate companies merged in New York State to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
  • Ford Motor CompanyHenry Ford stood in a converted factory on the 16th of June 1903, and signed papers to establish the Ford Motor Company.
  • 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.
  • 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…
  • The Coca-Cola CompanyIn July 1886, pharmacist John Stith Pemberton from Columbus, Georgia, invented the original Coca-Cola drink. The product was advertised as helpful in the…
  • Visa Inc.On the 18th of September 1958, Bank of America officially launched its BankAmericard credit card program in Fresno, California.
  • 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…