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- 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…
- TencentIn November 1998, five men gathered in a small office in Shenzhen to launch a company they named Tencent. The name came from the Chinese characters for…
- YandexArkady Volozh contacted Ilya Segalovich in 1990 to build search software for Russian texts. They named their venture Arcadia before inventing the name Yandex…