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Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- XAI (company)Elon Musk announced the formation of xAI on the 12th of July 2023. The company officially began operations earlier that year on the 9th of March 2023.
- YahooIn January 1994, two electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University named Jerry Yang and David Filo created a website called Jerry and…
- NvidiaOn the 5th of April 1993, three engineers named Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem established Nvidia in Santa Clara, California.
- AMDJerry Sanders stood at the edge of a new world on the 1st of May 1969. He incorporated Advanced Micro Devices with seven colleagues from Fairchild…
- Silicon GraphicsJames H. Clark left his position as an electrical engineering associate professor at Stanford University to found Silicon Graphics in November 1981.