AMAZON.COM
Founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, Amazon.com is the world's largest online retailer today. Recently, Amazon and Apple have become the first trillion-dollar companies in the US. CEO Jeff Bezos is currently the richest man on the planet.
CEO: Jeff Bezos.
employee: 566,000 people
Head office: Seattle, WA.
Growth over the past ten years: 2020%.
APPLE
Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976. By August 2, 2018, Apple officially became the first US company to reach a value of over $1 trillion. The company's stock price reached 207 USD.
CEO: Tim Cook
employee: 123,000 people
Head office: Cupertino, CA
Growth over the past ten years: 770%.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes on February 4, 2004.
CEO: Mark Zuckerberg.
Employee: 25,105 people
Head office: Menlo Park, CA.
Growth over the past ten years: 483%.
ALPHABET ( carrier company of Google)
Alphabet was founded by: Larry Page and Sergey Brin on October 2, 2015.
CEO: Larry Page.
employee: 72,053 people
Headquarters: Mountain View, California.
Growth over the past ten years: 411%.
MICROSOFT
Microsoft was founded by: Bill Gates & Paul Allen on April 4, 1975 .
CEO: Satya Nadella.
Employee: 124,000 people
Headquarters: Redmond, Washington.
Growth over the past ten years: 231%.
Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone & Evan Williams on March 21, 2006.
CEO: Jack Dorsey.
employee: 3,583 people
Headquarters: San Francisco, California.
Growth over the past ten years: -28%.
SNAP INC
Snap Inc was founded by Evan Spiegel & Bobby Murphy on September 16, 2011.
CEO: Evan Spiegel.
employee: 3,069 people
Headquarters: Venice, California.
ALIBABA
Alibaba was founded by Jack Ma & Peng Lei on April 4, 1999. Although he is no longer the CEO of Alibaba, Jack Ma is currently the richest person in China.
CEO: Daniel Zhang.
employee: 50,092 people
Head office: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Growth over the past ten years: 108%.
NETFLIX
Netflix was founded by Reed Hastings & Marc Randolph on August 29, 1997
CEO: Reed Hastings.
employee: 5,400 people
Headquarters: Los Gatos, California.
Growth over the past ten years: 6259%.
PAYPAL
PayPal was founded by Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, Max Levchin, Peter Thiel and Elon Musk in December 1998.
CEO: Daniel Schulman.
employee: 18,100 people
Headquarters: San Jose, California.
Growth over the past ten years: 129%.
Data up to March 2018.