Groupon is an online sales site that was created in 2007 by Andrew Mason in the United States. Originally, it was called The Point and it consisted of a platform that brought people together to accomplish a goal. In 2009, it...
PayPal is a platform for digital payments that was created in 1998 under the name of Confinity by the technology entrepreneurs Peter Thiel and Max Levchin in California, United States. In 2001, it changed its name to what we currently know....
Apple is the computer company established in California by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in 1977, after creating the first hand-made personal computer named Apple 1, in 1976. It was the first company that popularized the graphical user interface....
Walmart a retail corporation and the world’s biggest chain that was founded in 1962 by Sam Walton in the United States. The first store was focused on discounts and was located in Rogers, Arkansas. Today, it operates 11,500 department stores which...
Facebook is the company that manages different social networks and Internet-based communication and information services, which allow people to connect with each other, contact and share experiences, opinions, ideas, photos, and videos both with their relatives, friends and coworkers, but with...
YouTube is the most popular free online video platform and the world’s second most visited website, which was launched in 2005 by Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Hurley. Originally, it was intended as a dating site but it soon expanded...
Tesla is the manufacturer of electric cars and energy generation and storage products that was founded in 2003 in the United States by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning and was named after the Croatian inventor Nikola Tesla, who was responsible for...
Airbnb is an online hospitality service that connects people looking for a place to stay in almost any part of the world, with home and apartment owners who make their places available for money as a temporary rental. The company started...
The Home Depot is the retail chain dedicated to home improvement products, that was created in 1978 by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank in the United States, under the vision of offering one-stop shopping for the “do-it-yourselfers”. Today it has 2,287...
Costco Wholesale Corporation is an American retail chain, which began operations in Seattle, Washington, in 1983. Ten years later, it merged with The Price Company to form Price / Costco and since 1999, it works under its current name. Today, the...
