Founders
|
Business Sector
|
Date Founded
|
Current Headquarters
|
Company Founded
|
Pierre Omidyar
|
E-tail
|
1995
|
San Jose, CA
|
eBay
|
Kiichiro Toyoda
|
Automotive
|
1937
|
Aichi, Japan
|
Toyota
|
Bill Gates, Paul Allen
|
Technology
|
1975
|
Redmond, WA
|
Microsoft
|
William S. Paley, Arthur Judson
|
Media
|
1927
|
New York City
|
CBS
|
Sir Jack Cohen
|
Retail
|
1919
|
Welwyn Garden City, England
|
Tesco
|
Jeff Bezos
|
E-tail
|
1994
|
Seattle, WA
|
Amazon
|
Herb Kelleher
|
Travel
|
1971
|
Dallas, TX
|
Southwest Airlines
|
Larry Page, Sergey Brin
|
Technology
|
1998
|
Mountain View, CA
|
Google
|
Lee Byung-chul
|
Technology
|
1938
|
Seoul, South Korea
|
Samsung
|
Sir Richard Branson
|
Conglomerate
|
1970
|
London, England
|
Virgin Group
|
Glen Bell
|
Restaurant
|
1962
|
Irvine, CA
|
Taco Bell
|
Henry J. Raymond, George Jones
|
Media
|
1851
|
New York City
|
New York Times
|
Ingvar Kamprad
|
Retail
|
1943
|
Delft, Netherlands
|
IKEA
|
Scott & Bill Rasmussen, Ed Eagan
|
Media
|
1979
|
Bristol, CT
|
ESPN
|
Jerry Yang, David Filo
|
Technology
|
1994
|
Sunnyvale, CA
|
Yahoo!
|
Phil Knight, Bill Bowerman
|
Clothing
|
1964
|
Beaverton, OR
|
Nike
|
James Cash Penney
|
Retail
|
1902
|
Plano, TX
|
JC Penney
|
Travis Kalanick, Garrett Camp
|
Ride-share
|
2009
|
San Francisco, CA
|
UBER
|
Charles Ranlett Flint
|
Technology
|
1911
|
Armonk, NY
|
IBM
|
Gordon Bowker, Ziv Siegel, Jerry Baldwin
|
Restaurant
|
1971
|
Seattle, WA
|
Starbucks
|
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A few of those I would never have guessed. Herb and the Rasmussen brothers’ companies have very little foot print in the UK. Albeit I suspect Jack Cohen is a tricky one for non Brits (and me).
Interesting quiz though.