1.Apple
Brand value:$205.5 billion
Co-founders: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne
Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American business magnate, entrepreneur, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of Apple Inc.
Jobs was born in San Francisco, California and put up for adoption. He was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out that same year and travelled through India in 1974 seeking enlightenment and studying Zen Buddhism.
YOU MUST KNOW THIS ABOUT STEVE JOBS
- He almost became a Buddhist monk
- He was a college dropout
- He met his biological sister at 27
- His lifestyle choices possibly resulted in the name ‘Apple’
- He was once fired from Apple
- He was a tough boss
- Steve Jobs had close to 300 patents under his name
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2. Google
Brand value:$214.48 billion
Co-founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Larry Page
Lawrence Edward Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin.
Page is the chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc. (Google's parent company). After stepping aside as Google CEO in August 2001, in favour of Eric Schmidt, he re-assumed the role in April 2011. He announced his intention to step aside a second time on July 2015, to become CEO of Alphabet, under which Google's assets would be reorganized. Under Page, Alphabet is seeking to deliver major advancements in a variety of industries.
YOU MUST KNOW THIS ABOUT LARRY PAGE
- The idea for a search engine came to Page in a dream, literally.
- Page was only 23 years when he started the Google project as part of his PhD requirements in 1996.
- Page proposed that they sell Google for $1 million soon as he and Brin had established a functional search engine. Fortunately, all the companies they approached including Alta Vista, Excite, and Yahoo! refused the offer.
- “Google” as a company name was in fact accidental. Page, Brin and a third party who was helping with the project misspelt “googol,” a mathematical term for 1 followed by 100 zeros.
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3. Amazon
Brand value:$100.764 billion
Founder: Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is an American technology entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder, CEO, and president of Amazon.com, Inc.
Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and raised in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. He founded Amazon in late 1994 on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a wide variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is currently the world's largest online sales company, the largest internet company by revenue, as well as the world's largest provider of AI assistance and cloud infrastructure services via its Amazon Web Services arm.
YOU MUST KNOW THIS ABOUT JEFF BEZOS
- he was formally designated the wealthiest person in the world by Forbes on March 6, 2018, with a net worth of $112 billion.
- We the world’s richest man as Jeff Bezos but that is not his real name. He was born as Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen
- Owns the Washington Post. He purchased the 142-year-old newspaper back in 2013 for $250 million.
4. Microsoft
Brand value:$92.72 billion
Founder: Bill Gates, Paul Allen
Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, and humanitarian. He is best known as the principal founder of the Microsoft Corporation. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014.
Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Gates launched Microsoft with childhood friend Paul Allen in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico; it went on to become the world's largest personal computer software company. Gates led the company as chairman and CEO until stepping down as CEO in January 2000, but he remained chairman and became a chief software architect.
YOU MUST KNOW THIS ABOUT BILL GATES
- Despite his immense wealth, Gates says his kids will only inherit $10 million each.
- Gates scored a near-perfect 1590 out of 1600 on his SATs(Scholastic Assessment Test)
- He left Harvard University in 1975 to fully devote himself to Microsoft
- Gates has a Porsche collection.
5. Coca-Cola
Brand value:$66.34 billion
Founder: John Stith Pemberton
John Pemberton
John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was an American pharmacist who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola. In May 1886, he developed an early version of a beverage that would later become world-famous as Coca-Cola but sold his rights to the drink shortly before his death.
Pemberton was born on July 8, 1831, in Knoxville, Georgia, and spent most of his childhood in Rome, Georgia, United States. His parents were James C. Pemberton and Martha L. Gant. He entered the Reform Medical College of Georgia in Macon, Georgia, and in 1850, at the age of nineteen, he earned his medical degree.
YOU MUST KNOW THIS ABOUT JOHN STITH PEMBERTON
- Coca-Cola’s inventor served as an officer in the Civil War, and an injury eventually led to the creation of the carbonated drink.
- Pemberton turned to cocaine as a substitute for morphine.
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