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Software companies of 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…
- TumblrIn 2006, a software consultant named David Karp found himself with a two-week gap between contracts at his company, Davidville.
- 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…
- 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.
- Twitch (service)In June 2011, a new website called TwitchTV launched in public beta as a dedicated spin-off of the general-interest streaming platform Justin.tv.
- CourseraStanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller launched Coursera in 2012. They had begun offering their own Stanford courses…
- ElevenLabsPiotr Dąbkowski and Mati Staniszewski launched ElevenLabs in 2022 after leaving their previous roles at Google and Palantir.
- 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.
- 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.