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List of companies founded by Stanford University alumni

Index List of companies founded by Stanford University alumni

This is a list of companies founded by Stanford University alumni, including attendees who enrolled in degree-programs at Stanford but did not eventually graduate. [1]

204 relations: Akamai Technologies, Alex Karp, Alibaba Group, Alphabet Inc., Alta Partners, Alvy Ray Smith, Amr Awadallah, Andy Bechtolsheim, Andy Dunn, Aneel Bhusri, Atari, Atari, SA, Bain & Company, Bain Capital, Barnes & Noble, Bobby Murphy (businessman), Bonobos (apparel), Brian Acton, Brook Byers, Capital One, Charles R. Schwab, Charles Schwab Corporation, Cisco Systems, Clarium Capital, Cloudera, Company, Confinity, Conglomerate (company), Consulting firm, Coursera, Coverity, Cyc, Cypress Semiconductor, D. E. Shaw & Co., Daniel Borel, Daphne Koller, David E. Shaw, David Filo, David M. Kelley, David O. Sacks, David Packard, Doris F. Fisher, Douglas Lenat, Draper James, EBay, Edward Ginzton, Electronic Arts, Elon Musk, Eric Baker (businessman), Eric Ly, ..., Evan Spiegel, Expedia, Extreme Networks, Eye-Fi, Facebook, Fairchild Semiconductor, Farallon Capital, Finance, Forbes, Fortune (magazine), Fortune 1000, Fortune Global 500, Founders Fund, Gap Inc., Ginkgo Bioworks, Glassdoor, Google, Grocery store, Hellman & Friedman, Hewlett-Packard, HP Inc., IAC (company), IDEO, Instagram, Intuit, IRobot, Jawed Karim, Jensen Huang, Jerry Yang, Joe Coulombe, Joe Lonsdale, John Overdeck, Jon Kraft, Katrina Lake, Ken Howery, Kevin Systrom, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Kurt Akeley, Larry Page, Lattice Semiconductor, Leonard Bosack, LinkedIn, List of companies founded by Harvard University alumni, List of companies founded by MIT alumni, List of companies founded by UC Berkeley alumni, List of companies founded by University of Pennsylvania alumni, List of Latin phrases (E), List of Stanford University people, Logitech, Loopt, Lynn Jurich, Michael Arrington, Micron Technology, Microsoft, Mike Krieger, Mitt Romney, Morris Chang, NASDAQ, NetApp, Netflix, New York Daily News, New York Stock Exchange, Nike, Inc., Nolan Bushnell, Nvidia, Oath Inc., Obihai Technology, OkCupid, Ole Andreas Halvorsen, Omaze, ON Semiconductor, OpenAI, Oracle Corporation, Orders of magnitude (numbers), Palantir Technologies, Pandora Radio, PayPal, Pete Flint, Peter Thiel, Phil Knight, Pierluigi Zappacosta, PitchBook Data, Pixar, Polycom, Real estate, Redfin, Reed Hastings, Reese Witherspoon, Reid Hoffman, Rich Barton, Richard Fairbank, Robert Hohman, Robinhood (Company), Rodney Brooks, Russell and Sigurd Varian, Sam Altman, Sam Yagan, Sandy Lerner, Scott McNealy, Semiconductor, Sergey Brin, Silicon Graphics, Snapchat, SpaceX, SparkNotes, Stanford University, Stephen Cohen (entrepreneur), Stitch Fix, StubHub, Subsidiary, Sun Microsystems, Sunrun, Synopsys, T. J. Rodgers, Taiwan, TechCrunch, Technology transfer, The 3DO Company, The Boring Company, The Walt Disney Company, Tim Westergren, Tom Proulx, Tom Steyer, Trader Joe's, Trip Hawkins, Trulia, TSMC, Tully Friedman, Two Sigma, United States, University of California, Berkeley, Varian Associates, Venture capital, Verizon Communications, Victor Grinich, Victor Koo, Video game, Viking Global Investors, Vinod Khosla, VMware, W. W. Hansen, Walmart, Webex, WhatsApp, William Redington Hewlett, Workday, Inc., X.com, Yahoo!, Yammer, Youku, Youku Tudou, YouTube, Zhu Min (entrepreneur), Zillow. Expand index (154 more) »

Akamai Technologies

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American content delivery network (CDN) and cloud service provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States.

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Alex Karp

Alexander Karp (born October 2, 1967) is an American billionaire businessman, co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies.

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Alibaba Group

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational e-commerce, retail, Internet, AI and technology conglomerate founded in 1999 that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals, as well as electronic payment services, shopping search engines and cloud computing services.

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Alphabet Inc.

Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mountain View, California.

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Alta Partners

Alta Partners is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA.

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Alvy Ray Smith

Alvy Ray Smith III is an American computer scientist who cofounded Lucasfilm's Computer Division, and Pixar, participating in the 1980s and 1990s expansion of computer animation into feature film.

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Amr Awadallah

Amr Awadallah (born October 1, 1970) is an Egyptian-born American computer scientist, Silicon Valley entrepreneur known for running one of the very first organizations to use Apache Hadoop for data analysis and business intelligence while at Yahoo! and co-founding Cloudera Inc., a Palo Alto-based company providing tools, services, and support around Apache Hadoop.

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Andy Bechtolsheim

Andreas Maria Maximilian Freiherr von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim (born 30 September 1955), known as Andy Bechtolsheim, is a German electrical engineer, entrepreneur, investor, and self-made billionaire.

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Andy Dunn

Andy Dunn (born February 20, 1979) is an American entrepreneur and the CEO of Bonobos Inc., the parent company of Bonobos (apparel) and Maide golf, and since 2017 a susidiary of Walmart.

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Aneel Bhusri

Aneel Bhusri (born February 14, 1966) is an enterprise software executive and investor.

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Atari

Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972, currently by Atari Interactive, a subsidiary of the French publisher Atari, SA.

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Atari, SA

Atari, SA (formerly Infogrames Entertainment, SA) is a French holding company headquartered in Paris.

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Bain & Company

Bain & Company is a global management consultancy headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Bain Capital

Bain Capital is a global alternative investment firm based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, is the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States, and a retailer of content, digital media, and educational products.

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Bobby Murphy (businessman)

Robert Cornelius Murphy (born July 19, 1988) is an American Internet entrepreneur and engineer.

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Bonobos (apparel)

Bonobos is an e-commerce-driven apparel subsidiary of Walmart headquartered in New York City that designs and sells men's clothing.

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Brian Acton

Brian Acton (born February 17, 1972) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur.

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Brook Byers

Brook Byers is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the brother of Stanford University Professor Tom Byers and Atlanta, Georgia engineering entrepreneur Ken Byers.

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Capital One

Capital One Financial Corporation is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking and savings products headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

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Charles R. Schwab

Charles Robert Schwab (born July 29, 1937) is an American investor, financial executive, and philanthropist.

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Charles Schwab Corporation

The Charles Schwab Corporation is a bank and brokerage firm, based in San Francisco, California.

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Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, that develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products.

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Clarium Capital

Clarium Capital Management LLC is an American investment management and hedge fund company pursuing a global macro strategy.

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Cloudera

Cloudera, Inc. is a United States-based software company that provides Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark-based software, support and services, and training to business customers.

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Company

A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity made up of an association of people for carrying on a commercial or industrial enterprise.

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Confinity

Confinity Inc. was an American software company based in Silicon Valley, best known as the creator of PayPal.

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Conglomerate (company)

A conglomerate is the combination of two or more corporations operating in entirely different industries under one corporate group, usually involving a parent company and many subsidiaries.

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Consulting firm

A consulting or consultancy firm is a business of one or more experts (consultants) that provides professional advice to an individual or an organization for a fee.

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Coursera

Coursera is an online learning platform founded by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller that offers courses, specializations, and degrees.

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Coverity

Coverity is a brand of software development products from Synopsys, consisting primarily of static code analysis and dynamic code analysis tools.

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Cyc

Cyc is the world's longest-lived artificial intelligence project, attempting to assemble a comprehensive ontology and knowledge base that spans the basic concepts and "rules of thumb" about how the world works (think common sense knowledge but focusing more on things that rarely get written down or said, in contrast with facts one might find somewhere on the internet or retrieve via Google or Wikipedia), with the goal of enabling AI applications to perform human-like reasoning and be less "brittle" when confronted with novel situations that were not preconceived.

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Cypress Semiconductor

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation is an American semiconductor design and manufacturing company.

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D. E. Shaw & Co.

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Daniel Borel

Daniel Borel (born February 14, 1950) is a Swiss businessman and co-founder of Logitech.

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Daphne Koller

Daphne Koller (born August 27, 1968) is an Israeli-American Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient.

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David E. Shaw

David Elliot Shaw (born March 29, 1951) is an American investor, computer scientist, and hedge fund manager.

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David Filo

David Robert Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang.

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David M. Kelley

David M. Kelley (born February 10, 1951) is an American businessman, entrepreneur, designer, engineer, and teacher.

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David O. Sacks

David Oliver Sacks (born May 25, 1972) is an entrepreneur and investor in internet technology firms.

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David Packard

David Packard (September 7, 1912 – March 26, 1996) was an electrical engineer and co-founder, with William Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947–64), CEO (1964–68), and Chairman of the Board (1964–68, 1972–93).

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Doris F. Fisher

Doris F. Fisher (née Feigenbaum; born 1931) is an American businesswoman who co-founded The Gap clothing stores with her late husband, Donald Fisher in 1969.

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Douglas Lenat

Douglas Bruce Lenat (born 1950) is the CEO of Cycorp, Inc. of Austin, Texas, and has been a prominent researcher in artificial intelligence; he was awarded the biannual IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 1976 for creating the landmark machine learning program, AM.

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Draper James

Draper James is a clothing line launched by actress Reese Witherspoon, founded in 2015.

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EBay

eBay Inc. is a multinational e-commerce corporation based in San Jose, California that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website.

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Edward Ginzton

Dr Edward Leonard Ginzton (December 27, 1915 – August 13, 1998) was a Ukrainian-American engineer.

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Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is an American business magnate, investor and engineer.

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Eric Baker (businessman)

Eric H. Baker (born May 1973) is an American businessman, the founder and CEO of Viagogo, and co-founder of StubHub.

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Eric Ly

Eric Thich Vi Ly (born January 15, 1969) is a Vietnamese-American entrepreneur and investor.

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Evan Spiegel

Evan Thomas Spiegel (born June 4, 1990) is the co-founder and CEO of the American multinational technology and social media company Snap Inc., which he created (as Snapchat Inc.) with Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown while they were students at Stanford University.

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Expedia

Expedia.com is a travel booking website owned by Expedia Group.

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Extreme Networks

Extreme Networks is a networking company based in San Jose, California.

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Eye-Fi

Eye-Fi is a company based in Mountain View, California that produces SD memory cards and SDHC cards with Wi-Fi capabilities.

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Facebook

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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Fairchild Semiconductor

Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. was an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California.

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Farallon Capital

Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C. is an American investment firm that manages capital on behalf of institutions and individuals.

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Finance

Finance is a field that is concerned with the allocation (investment) of assets and liabilities (known as elements of the balance statement) over space and time, often under conditions of risk or uncertainty.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine.

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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune is an American multinational business magazine headquartered in New York City, United States.

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Fortune 1000

Fortune 1000 is a reference to a list maintained by the American business magazine Fortune.

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Fortune Global 500

The Fortune Global 500, also known as Global 500, is an annual ranking of the top 500 corporations worldwide as measured by revenue and the list is compiled and published annually by Fortune magazine.

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Founders Fund

Founders Fund is an American San Francisco-based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.

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Gap Inc.

The Gap, Inc., commonly known as Gap Inc. or Gap, (stylized as GAP) is an American worldwide clothing and accessories retailer.

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Ginkgo Bioworks

Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotech company founded in 2009 by scientists from MIT headed by Tom Knight.

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Glassdoor

Glassdoor is a website where employees and former employees anonymously review companies and their management.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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Grocery store

A grocery store or grocer's shop is a retail shop that primarily sells food.

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Hellman & Friedman

Hellman & Friedman LLC (H&F) is an American private equity firm, founded in 1984 by Warren Hellman and Tully Friedman, that makes investments primarily through leveraged buyouts as well as growth capital investments.

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Hewlett-Packard

The Hewlett-Packard Company (commonly referred to as HP) or shortened to Hewlett-Packard was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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HP Inc.

HP (also known as HP Inc. and stylized as hp) is an American technology company which develops personal computers (PCs), printers and related supplies, as well as 3D Printing solutions.

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IAC (company)

IAC (InterActiveCorp) is an American holding company, that owns over 150 brands across 100 countries, mostly in media and Internet headquartered in New York City.

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IDEO

IDEO (pronounced „eye-dee-oh") is an international design and consulting firm founded in Palo Alto, California, in 1991.

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Instagram

Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS.

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Intuit

Intuit Inc. is a business and financial software company that develops and sells financial, accounting, and tax preparation software and related services for small businesses, accountants, and individuals.

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IRobot

iRobot Corporation is an American advanced technology company founded in 1990 by three MIT graduates who designed robots for space exploration and military defense.

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Jawed Karim

Jawed Karim (born October 28, 1979) is an Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of YouTube.

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Jensen Huang

Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang (born February 17, 1963) is a Taiwan-born American entrepreneur and businessman.

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Jerry Yang

Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (born November 6, 1968) is a Taiwanese-American Internet entrepreneur, engineer, and programmer.

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Joe Coulombe

Joseph Hardin Coulombe (born June 3, 1930) is an American entrepreneur.

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Joe Lonsdale

Joseph Todd "Joe" Lonsdale V (September 12, 1982) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist.

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John Overdeck

John Albert Overdeck is an American hedge fund manager and philanthropist.

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Jon Kraft

Jon Kraft is an American business executive best known as a co-founder of Pandora Media, Inc. and its former CEO.

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Katrina Lake

Katrina Lake is the founder and CEO of Stitch Fix, a fashion-based subscription service which was established in 2011 in San Francisco and went public in 2017.

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Ken Howery

Kenneth Alan "Ken" Howery (born November 4, 1975) is an American entrepreneur.

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Kevin Systrom

Kevin York Systrom (born December 30, 1983).

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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

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Kurt Akeley

Kurt Akeley (born June 8, 1958) is an American computer graphics engineer.

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Larry Page

Lawrence Edward Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin.

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Lattice Semiconductor

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation is an American manufacturer of high-performance programmable logic devices (FPGAs, CPLDs, & SPLDs).

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Leonard Bosack

Leonard X. Bosack (born 1952) along with his former wife Sandy Lerner, is a co-founder of Cisco Systems, an American-based multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking and communications technology and services.

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LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps.

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List of companies founded by Harvard University alumni

This is a list of companies founded by Harvard University alumni, including attendees who enrolled in degree programs at Harvard University but did not eventually graduate.

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List of companies founded by MIT alumni

This is a list of companies founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni, including attendees who enrolled in degree-programs at MIT but did not eventually graduate.

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List of companies founded by UC Berkeley alumni

This is a list of companies founded by University of California, Berkeley alumni, including attendees who enrolled in degree-programs at Berkeley but did not eventually graduate.

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List of companies founded by University of Pennsylvania alumni

This is a list of companies founded by University of Pennsylvania alumni, including attendees who enrolled in degree-programs at University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) but did not eventually graduate.

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List of Latin phrases (E)

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List of Stanford University people

This page lists the members of Stanford University, including students, alumni, faculty and academic affiliates associated.

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Logitech

Logitech International S.A. (commonly referred to as Logitech or Logi; stylized as logitech, previously LOGITECH) is a Swiss provider of personal computer and mobile accessories, with its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland and administrative headquarters in Newark, California.

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Loopt

Loopt was a company based in Mountain View, California, United States which provided a service for smartphone users to share their location selectively with other people (see location-based service).

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Lynn Jurich

Lynn Jurich (born 1979) is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Sunrun, a home solar power installation, financing and leasing company headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Michael Arrington

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Micron Technology

Micron Technology, Inc. is an American global corporation based in Boise, Idaho.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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Mike Krieger

Michel "Mike" Krieger (born March 4, 1986) is a Brazilian entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Instagram along with Kevin Systrom.

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Mitt Romney

Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election.

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Morris Chang

Morris Chang (born 10 July 1931), is a businessman in Taiwan and the founder, as well as former chairman and CEO, of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's first and largest silicon foundry.

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NASDAQ

The Nasdaq Stock Market is an American stock exchange.

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NetApp

NetApp, Inc. is a hybrid cloud data services company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

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Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American over-the-top media services provider, headquartered in Los Gatos, California.

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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled Daily News, is an American newspaper based in New York City.

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New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange (abbreviated as NYSE, and nicknamed "The Big Board"), is an American stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York.

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Nike, Inc.

Nike, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, and worldwide marketing and sales of footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories, and services.

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Nolan Bushnell

Nolan Kay Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American electrical engineer and businessman.

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Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation (most commonly referred to as Nvidia, stylized as NVIDIA, or (due to their logo) nVIDIA) is an American technology company incorporated in Delaware and based in Santa Clara, California.

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Oath Inc.

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Obihai Technology

Obihai Technology manufactures analog telephone adapters which support SIP (session initiation protocol), XMPP and Google Voice compatible Internet telephony.

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OkCupid

OkCupid (sometimes abbreviated as OKC) is an American-based, internationally operating online dating, friendship, and social networking website that features multiple-choice questions in order to match members.

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Ole Andreas Halvorsen

Ole Andreas Halvorsen (born 1961) is a Norwegian-born investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist.

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Omaze

Omaze is an online fundraising platform that offers once-in-a-lifetime experiences and exclusive merchandise in support of critical causes.

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ON Semiconductor

ON Semiconductor is a Fortune 500 semiconductors supplier company.

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OpenAI

OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research company that aims to promote and develop friendly AI in such a way as to benefit humanity as a whole.

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Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation, headquartered in Redwood Shores, California.

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Orders of magnitude (numbers)

This list contains selected positive numbers in increasing order, including counts of things, dimensionless quantity and probabilities.

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Palantir Technologies

Palantir Technologies is a private American software and services company which specializes in big data analytics.

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Pandora Radio

Pandora Radio (also known as Pandora Internet Radio or simply Pandora) is a music streaming and automated music recommendation internet radio service powered by the Music Genome Project.

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PayPal

PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American company operating a worldwide online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like cheques and money orders.

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Pete Flint

Pete Flint (born July 25, 1974) is a British Internet Entrepreneur and Investor based in San Francisco.

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Peter Thiel

Peter Andreas Thiel (born October 11, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political activist, and author.

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Phil Knight

Philip Hampson Knight (born February 24, 1938) is an American business magnate and philanthropist.

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Pierluigi Zappacosta

Pierluigi Zappacosta (born Chieti, Italy, on July 2, 1950) is Chairman of Faro Ventures, Italy, and has co-founded, directed, and/or served on Boards for a number of prestigious companies.

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PitchBook Data

PitchBook Data, Inc. is a SaaS company that delivers data, research and technology covering the private capital markets, including venture capital, private equity and M&A transactions.

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Pixar

Pixar Animation Studios, commonly referred to as Pixar, is an American computer animation movie studio based in Emeryville, California that is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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Polycom

Polycom is an American multinational corporation that develops video, voice and content collaboration and communication technology.

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Real estate

Real estate is "property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.

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Redfin

Redfin is a full-service real estate brokerage that uses modern technology to help people buy and sell homes.

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Reed Hastings

Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr. (born October 8, 1960) is an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist.

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Reese Witherspoon

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur.

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Reid Hoffman

Reid Garrett Hoffman CBE (born August 5, 1967) is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author.

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Rich Barton

Richard Barton (born June 2, 1967) is an American former Microsoft executive and founder of online travel company (and Microsoft spinoff) Expedia, Inc., real-estate internet company Zillow, and job search engine and career community Glassdoor.

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Richard Fairbank

Richard Dana Fairbank (born 18 September 1950) is an American billionaire businessman who founded Capital One with Nigel Morris in 1994 (though the bank's own website says that Fairbank founded the bank in 1988), and is its chairman and CEO.

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Robert Hohman

Robert Hohman (born 1970/71) is the cofounder and CEO of Glassdoor.

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Robinhood (Company)

Robinhood Markets Inc., or simply Robinhood, is a U.S.-based financial services company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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Rodney Brooks

Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954) is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics.

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Russell and Sigurd Varian

Russell Harrison Varian (April 24, 1898 – July 28, 1959) and Sigurd Fergus Varian (May 4, 1901 – October 18, 1961) were brothers who founded one of the earliest high-tech companies in Silicon Valley.

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Sam Altman

Samuel H. "Sam" Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and blogger.

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Sam Yagan

Sam Yagan (born April 10, 1977) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of OkCupid.

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Sandy Lerner

Sandy Lerner (born 1955) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist.

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Scott McNealy

Scott McNealy (born November 13, 1954) is an American businessman.

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Semiconductor

A semiconductor material has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor – such as copper, gold etc.

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Sergey Brin

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (Серге́й Миха́йлович Брин; born August 21, 1973) is a Russian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur.

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Silicon Graphics

Silicon Graphics, Inc. (later rebranded SGI, historically known as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS) was an American high-performance computing manufacturer, producing computer hardware and software.

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Snapchat

Snapchat is a multimedia messaging app used globally, created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, former students at Stanford University, and developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc.

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SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is a private American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

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SparkNotes

SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Stephen Cohen (entrepreneur)

Stephen Cohen (born September 30, 1982) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur.

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Stitch Fix

Stitch Fix is an online subscription and personal shopping service in the United States.

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StubHub

StubHub is an online ticket exchange company owned by eBay, which provides services for buyers and sellers of tickets for sports, concerts, theater and other live entertainment events.

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Subsidiary

A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company"daughter company.

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Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was an American company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC.

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Sunrun

Sunrun Inc. is a United States-based provider of residential solar electricity, headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Synopsys

Synopsys, Inc., an American company, is the leading company by sales in the Electronic Design Automation industry.

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T. J. Rodgers

Thurman John "T.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch is an American online publisher of technology industry news founded in 2005 by Archimedes Ventures whose partners were Michael Arrington and Keith Teare.

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Technology transfer

Technology transfer, also called transfer of technology (TOT), is the process of transferring (disseminating) technology from the places and ingroups of its origination to wider distribution among more people and places.

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The 3DO Company

The 3DO Company (formerly THDO on the NASDAQ stock exchange), also known as 3DO, was an American video game company.

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The Boring Company

The Boring Company is an infrastructure and tunnel construction company founded by Elon Musk in 2016.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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Tim Westergren

Timothy Brooks Westergren (born December 21, 1965) is a co-founder of Pandora Radio.

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Tom Proulx

Thomas Proulx, better known as Tom Proulx, is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur.

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Tom Steyer

Thomas Fahr Steyer (born June 27, 1957) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager, philanthropist, environmentalist, liberal activist, and fundraiser.

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Trader Joe's

Trader Joe's is an American chain of grocery stores based in Monrovia, California, owned by a German private equity family trust.

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Trip Hawkins

William Murray "Trip" Hawkins III (born December 28, 1953) is an American entrepreneur and founder of Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company, and Digital Chocolate.

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Trulia

Trulia is an online residential real estate site for home buyers, sellers, renters and real estate professionals in the United States.

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TSMC

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited (TSMC), also known as Taiwan Semiconductor, is the world's largest dedicated independent (pure-play) semiconductor foundry, with its headquarters and main operations located in the Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

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Tully Friedman

Tully Friedman (born January 1942) is an American businessman.

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Two Sigma

Two Sigma Investments LP is a New York City-based hedge fund that uses a variety of technological methods, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and distributed computing, for its trading strategies.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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Varian Associates

Varian Associates was one of the first high-tech companies in Silicon Valley.

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Venture capital

Venture capital (VC) is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, or both).

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Verizon Communications

Verizon Communications Inc., or simply Verizon, is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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Victor Grinich

Victor Henry Grinich (November 26, 1924 – November 4, 2000) was a pioneer in the semiconductor industry and a member of the "traitorous eight" that founded Silicon Valley.

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Victor Koo

Victor Koo or Gu Yongqiang served as president Sohu.com before leaving to co-found video website Youku in 2006, which merged with Tudou in 2012, creating one of China's premiere video portals.

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Video game

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

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Viking Global Investors

Viking Global Investors is an American-based hedge fund based in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla (Gurmukhi: ਵਿਨੋਦ ਖੋਸਲਾ; born 28 January 1955) is an Indian American billionaire engineer, businessman and venture capitalist.

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VMware

VMware, Inc. is a subsidiary of Dell Technologies that provides cloud computing and platform virtualization software and services.

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W. W. Hansen

William Webster Hansen (May 27, 1909 – May 23, 1949) was an American physicist and professor.

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Walmart

Walmart Inc. (formerly branded as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores.

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Webex

Cisco Webex, formerly WebEx Communications Inc., is a company that provides on-demand collaboration, online meeting, web conferencing and videoconferencing applications.

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WhatsApp

WhatsApp Messenger is a freeware and cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Facebook.

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William Redington Hewlett

William "Bill" Redington Hewlett (May 20, 1913 – January 12, 2001) was an American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP).

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Workday, Inc.

Workday, Inc. is an on‑demand (cloud-based) financial management and human capital management software vendor.

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X.com

X.com was an online bank founded by multimillionaire Elon Musk in November 1999 that later became PayPal.

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Yahoo!

Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc..

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Yammer

Yammer is a freemium enterprise social networking service used for private communication within organizations.

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Youku

Youku Inc., formerly Youku.com Inc.,"." Youku.

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Youku Tudou

Youku Tudou is the result of the 2012 merger of Chinese internet sites Youku and Tudou, creating one of China's biggest video sites.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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Zhu Min (entrepreneur)

Min Zhu (朱敏; born 1948) is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.

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Zillow

Zillow Group, or simply Zillow, is an online real estate database company that was founded in 2006, and was created by Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink, former Microsoft executives and founders of Microsoft spin-off Expedia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_founded_by_Stanford_University_alumni

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