Here is the list that includes world leading companies and their founders and this company sectors includes different areas like IT, tele-communications, e-commerce and more, all around the world. This content will be useful for the competitive exams as well as to improve your general knowledge.
Given below is the List of Big Companies and their Founders :
| Company | Founder | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Adidas | Adolf “Adi” Dassler | 1924 |
| Adobe Systems | Charles Geschke and John Warnock | 1982 |
| Airtel | Sunil Bharti Mittal | 1995 |
| Alibaba Group | Jack Ma | 1999 |
| Amazon.com | Jeff Bezos | 1994 |
| Apple Inc | Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne | 1976 |
| Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) | Franz Josel Popp | 1916 |
| BYJU’S | Byju Raveendran, Divya Gokulnath | 2011 |
| Cadbury | John Cadbury | 1824 |
| Colgate-Palmolive | William Colgate | 1806 |
| Dell | Michael Dell | 1984 |
| Ebay Inc | Pierre Morad Omidyar | 1995 |
| Mark Elliot Zuckerberg and others | 2004 | |
| Flipkart | Sachin Bansal, Binny Bansal | 2007 |
| Ford Motor | Henry Ford | 1903 |
| Sergey Brin and Larry Page | 1998 | |
| Horlicks | William and James Horlick | 1873 |
| HCL | Arjun Malhotra and Shiv Nadar | 1991 |
| HP (Hewlett-Packard) | Bill Hewlett and David Packard | 1939 |
| IBM (International Business Machines) | Thomas J Watson | 1911 |
| Infosys | Narayana Murthy | 1981 |
| Intel Corporation | Gordon E Moore, Robert Nyce and Arthur Rock | 1968 |
| Reid Hoffman, Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Allen Blue | 2002 | |
| Microsoft | Bill Gates and Paul Allen | 1975 |
| Nestle | Henry Nestle | 1866 |
| Netflix | Reed Hastings, Marc Randolph | 1997 |
| Nike | Bill Bowerman and Phillip Knight | 1964 |
| Nokia | Fredrik Idestam and Leo Mechelin | 1865 |
| Nvidia | Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem | 1993 |
| Oracle | Larry Ellison and others | 1977 |
| Orkut | Orkut Buyukkokten | 2004 |
| Procter & Gamble | William Procter and James Gamble | 1837 |
| Samsung | Lee Byung-chull | 1938 |
| Sony | Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita | 1946 |
| TATA | Jamsetji Tata | 1868 |
| Tesla | Elon Musk, JB Straubel, Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, Ian Wright | 2003 |
| The Boeing Company | William E Boeing | 1916 |
| The Walt Disney Company | Walt and Roy Disney | 1923 |
| Evan Williams, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey | 2006 | |
| Walmart | Sam Walton | 1962 |
| Wikipedia | Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger | 2001 |
| Wipro | M.H. Hasham Premji | 1945 |
| Yahoo | David Filo and Jerry Yang | 1995 |
| YouTube | Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim | 2005 |
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