Curated playlist
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
- GoogleGoogle's name is a misspelling of googol, a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The search engine was first nicknamed BackRub.
- Alphabet Inc.Alphabet's structure was modeled on Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.
- Meta PlatformsMark Zuckerberg announced on October 28, 2021 that Facebook was changing its name to Meta Platforms.
- Apple Inc.Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen Bus to help start Apple. Steve Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator to fund a circuit board.
- SpaceXAISpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence and social media division of SpaceX, was not always a division of anything. On the 12th of July 2023, Elon Musk publicly announced its predecessor company, xAI, calling it committed to being "maximally…
- TheranosTheranos was an American health technology company that promised a new kind of blood test, and it was founded by Elizabeth Holmes in 2003, when she was 19 years old. The privately held company went on to raise more than $700 million from…
- YahooIn 2002, Yahoo offered $3 billion to buy Google, and Google's leaders said no. Google reportedly wanted $5 billion.
- NvidiaNvidia began in a Denny's diner booth in East San Jose. Three engineers met there in late 1992 to plan it.
- AMDAMD named its K5 chip after Kryptonite, the only substance that could harm Superman.
- Silicon GraphicsEvery Academy Award-nominated visual effects film from 1995 through 2002 used Silicon Graphics systems.