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CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 by George Kurtz and Dmitri Alperovitch around a cloud-native alternative to legacy endpoint security. The Falcon platform later expanded across identity, cloud, data and AI security.
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Seagate was formed as Shugart Technology in 1979 by Alan Shugart and partners. Its 5.25-inch ST-506 helped establish hard drives for personal computers, followed by decades of higher capacities and new recording technologies.
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MediaTek was formed in Taiwan in 1997 when a UMC business unit was spun off. Optical-storage chipsets built the early business before mobile SoCs, connectivity and Dimensity made it a major fabless semiconductor company.
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Kioxia’s technology roots sit inside Toshiba, where NAND flash was invented in 1987. Toshiba separated its memory business in 2017, renamed it Kioxia in 2019 and later listed Kioxia Holdings in Tokyo.
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Ray Stata and Matthew Lorber founded Analog Devices in 1965 around precision operational amplifiers. The company expanded into converters, DSP, sensors and mixed-signal technology connecting physical phenomena to digital systems.
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Salesforce was incorporated in 1999 by Marc Benioff, Parker Harris, Frank Dominguez and Dave Moellenhoff. Its internet-delivered CRM helped popularise software as a service before the company expanded into platforms, analytics, Slack and AI agents.
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Qualcomm was founded in 1985 by seven former Linkabit colleagues. Its early bet on CDMA challenged established cellular thinking and eventually helped shape 3G, 4G, 5G and the Snapdragon mobile platform.
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Booking Holdings began as Priceline in 1997 with Jay Walker’s Name Your Own Price travel model. The acquisition of Booking.com in 2005 eventually shifted the centre of the company towards global accommodation reservations.
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Tesla was incorporated in 2003 and began with an electric sports car. Roadster, Model S, Superchargers, Gigafactories, energy storage and software turned it into a much broader technology company.
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NVIDIA began as a 3D graphics start-up in 1993. Its path through GeForce, CUDA, deep learning, RTX, Mellanox and AI infrastructure explains how it became far more than a gaming GPU company.
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