Curated category
Software companies of the United States
- MicrosoftThe January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics put a microcomputer called the Altair 8800 on its cover, and two childhood friends saw an opening.
- TumblrTumblr launched in February 2007, and within two weeks it had drawn 75,000 users to a platform that barely existed. David Karp had not set out to build a…
- 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.
- YahooYahoo began as a handmade list. In January 1994, two electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University named Jerry Yang and David Filo started…
- IBMIBM, formally the International Business Machines Corporation, was born in Endicott, New York, on the 16th of June 1911, when a financier named Charles…
- Twitch (service)Twitch is an American live-streaming platform that began its life in June 2011 not as a standalone product, but as a calculated spin-off carved out of a…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.