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Ding Lei founded NetEase in Guangzhou in 1997 during the early commercial expansion of the Chinese internet. The company first became known through internet services including email, portals and community products before online games became a major growth engine.
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Scott Cook conceived Intuit in 1983 after watching his wife struggle with the household checkbook. Cook and programmer Tom Proulx created Quicken to use the emerging personal computer as a simpler way to manage personal finances. Intuit began from Cook’s Palo Alto home and garage, building consumer financial software rather than large enterprise systems.
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Oracle began in 1977 as Software Development Laboratories. Its SQL database gave the company a name and a platform, while enterprise applications, acquisitions, Sun Microsystems and cloud infrastructure broadened the business.
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Tencent was founded in Shenzhen in 1998 and broke through with QQ instant messaging. WeChat, gaming, payments, cloud services and investments later turned it into one of China’s largest technology groups.
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Five former IBM employees founded SAP in 1972 to build standard software for real-time business processing. R/2, R/3, ERP and HANA turned that idea into a global enterprise platform.
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IBM traces its roots to tabulating, time-recording and scale companies combined in 1911. Punched cards, mainframes, the IBM PC, services, cloud and AI turned it into one of technology’s longest-running institutions.
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