1. Major Technology Companies

No.CompanyFounder(s)Established
1GoogleLarry Page, Sergey Brin1998
2Meta (Facebook)Mark Zuckerberg and co-founders2004
3AmazonJeff Bezos1994
4TeslaMartin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning2003
5MicrosoftBill Gates, Paul Allen1975
6AppleSteve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne1976
7NVIDIAJensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem1993
8SamsungLee Byung-chul1938
9AlibabaJack Ma and 17 co-founders1999
10TencentMa Huateng (Pony Ma) and co-founders1998
11NetflixReed Hastings, Marc Randolph1997
12IntelRobert Noyce, Gordon Moore1968
13IBMCharles Ranlett Flint (founded predecessor company)1911
14AdobeJohn Warnock, Charles Geschke1982
15OracleLarry Ellison, Bob Miner, Ed Oates1977
16SonyMasaru Ibuka, Akio Morita1946
17HP (Hewlett-Packard)Bill Hewlett, David Packard1939
18DellMichael Dell1984
19QualcommIrwin Jacobs and co-founders1985
20PayPalMax Levchin, Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek and others1998

2. Other Famous Internet and Digital Companies

No.CompanyFounder(s)Established
21YouTubeSteve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim2005
22WhatsAppJan Koum, Brian Acton2009
23Twitter (X)Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Noah Glass2006
24InstagramKevin Systrom, Mike Krieger2010
25TikTok (ByteDance)Zhang Yiming (ByteDance)2012
26SpotifyDaniel Ek, Martin Lorentzon2006
27UberGarrett Camp, Travis Kalanick2009
28AirbnbBrian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, Nathan Blecharczyk2008
29eBayPierre Omidyar1995
30LinkedInReid Hoffman and co-founders2002
31BaiduRobin Li, Eric Xu2000
32HuaweiRen Zhengfei1987
33XiaomiLei Jun and co-founders2010
34SpaceXElon Musk2002
35OpenAISam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever and co-founders2015