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Jay Chaudhry founded Zscaler in 2007 after building and selling several earlier cybersecurity companies. He argued that security appliances placed inside corporate networks would become less effective as employees, applications and data moved directly to the internet and cloud.
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Ctrip was founded in Shanghai in 1999 by entrepreneurs including James Liang, Neil Shen, Min Fan and Ji Qi as an online and call-centre travel service. The company focused on hotel and flight bookings for Chinese travellers while internet adoption and domestic tourism were expanding.
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Bom Kim founded Coupang in 2010 in South Korea, initially as a deals and social-commerce website. The business soon moved away from daily deals towards direct e-commerce and invested heavily in fulfilment infrastructure.
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Eric Yuan founded the company that became Zoom in 2011 after leaving Cisco, where he had worked on Webex and other collaboration products. Yuan believed video meetings could be made easier to join, more reliable across weak networks and simpler for users than existing enterprise systems.
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Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian founded Reddit in 2005 after joining Y Combinator’s first start-up batch. Aaron Swartz’s company Infogami later merged with Reddit during its early development. The site centred on user-submitted links and voting, letting communities decide which material rose to prominence.
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Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah founded FoodieBay in India in 2008 after recognising how difficult it was for office workers to access restaurant menus and information. The service began as a restaurant discovery and menu platform before changing its name to Zomato in 2010.
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David Hitz, James Lau and Michael Malcolm founded Network Appliance in 1992 in California. They built network-attached storage appliances designed to make shared file storage simpler than general-purpose servers running complex storage software.
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Peter Gassner founded Veeva Systems in 2007 after senior roles at Salesforce and other enterprise-software companies. Veeva focused narrowly on cloud applications for pharmaceutical and life-sciences companies rather than building generic CRM for every industry.
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GigaDevice Semiconductor was founded in Beijing in April 2005 as a fabless semiconductor company focused initially on non-volatile memory. The company developed SPI NOR flash products used to store firmware and code inside embedded devices.
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Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Michael James, Sean Lie and Jean-Philippe Fricker founded Cerebras Systems in 2015 with the goal of building an AI processor at wafer scale. Instead of cutting a processed silicon wafer into many separate dies, the team designed around an enormous interconnected processor spanning most of a wafer.
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