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AppLovin was founded in 2012 by Adam Foroughi and a small group of performance marketers. The company says the founders began with an $8 domain and bootstrapped the business around mobile advertising. It first worked closely with independent mobile-game developers, using data and advertising tools to help them acquire users and grow revenue.
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Terry Gou founded Hon Hai Plastics Corporation in Taiwan in 1974, initially making plastic components before the business moved deeper into electronics manufacturing and adopted the Hon Hai Precision Industry name in 1982. The company established the Foxconn name for its US subsidiary in 1985 and later used it globally as the best-known brand for its manufacturing operations.
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Ken and Michael Xie founded Fortinet in 2000 with a team of engineers focused on high-performance integrated network security. FortiGate launched in 2002 and grew into the centre of a much broader cybersecurity portfolio.
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Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon founded Spotify in 2006 and launched the service in 2008 as a legal on-demand alternative to music piracy. Podcasts, audiobooks and a 2026 leadership transition later broadened the company far beyond songs.
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Wiwynn started operations in 2012 with backing from Wistron and a focus on hyperscale cloud infrastructure. Open hardware, rack-level design, a 2019 Taiwan listing and AI-era cooling turned the young company into a major data-centre supplier.
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Snowflake was founded in 2012 by database engineers Benoît Dageville, Thierry Cruanes and Marcin Żukowski. Its cloud-native architecture separated storage from compute and helped reshape enterprise data warehousing.
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Pinduoduo began commercial operations in 2015 with a social team-purchase model. The business later listed in the US, expanded into agriculture and grocery, launched Temu internationally and renamed its parent PDD Holdings.
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Sony was founded in Tokyo in 1946 by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita. Radios, Trinitron, Walkman, music, film, PlayStation and image sensors turned a tiny post-war electronics company into a global entertainment and technology group.
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Bruce Cheng founded Delta Electronics in Taiwan in 1971. Switching power supplies built the early business before the company expanded into thermal management, automation, EV charging, data centres and energy infrastructure.
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Morris Chang founded TSMC in 1987 around a then-unusual idea: manufacture chips for other companies without competing with them. That pure-play foundry model helped reshape the semiconductor industry.
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