Since its founding in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Curtis Priem, and Chris Malachowsky, it has been very successful, earning a total of $9.7 billion in revenue. Today, Garmin has more than 10,000 employees and turned over $3.3 billion in 2018.The world's third largest entertainment company was created in January 1990 following the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications. However, the business is currently struggling and the UK arm has recently gone into administration.Retailer Amancio Ortega opened the first Zara store in 1974 in A Coruña in northwest Spain, calling it Zorba after 'Zorba the Greek', before changing the name to Zara. The company now has thousands of stores worldwide and turns over billions of dollars a year. Today Domino's has 16,500 outlets in more than 85 countries.AOL traces it roots back to 1983 when entrepreneur William von Meister (pictured) founded Control Video Corporation, an online service for Atari. The world's largest company by revenue, Walmart turned over a staggering $514.4 billion in 2019. The firm produced its first PC in 1985 and hasn't looked back.
However, 2019 also saw founder Jack Ma step down from the role of CEO.Desperate to get involved in the internet business boom of the 1990s, Jeff Bezos set up online retailer Cadabra in 1994, changing its name to Amazon.com not long after. In 2019, Dolby Laboratories reported revenues of $1.24 billion.Eager to steal a chunk of the market dominated by the BankAmericard, which would later become Visa, a consortium of California banks teamed up in 1966 to create the precursor to MasterCard, which was called 'Master Charge: The Interbank Card'. Fast forward to 2019 and Starbucks has 31,256 outlets worldwide generating an annual turnover of $26.51 billion.Google may dominate the search engine market in the western world, but Baidu is number one in China. Whole Foods Market was acquired by Amazon for $13.4 billion in 2017, and has more than 500 stores worldwide.In February 1984, Michael Dell, who was just 19 at the time, founded his eponymous computer hardware company in Austin, Texas using a $1,000 investment courtesy of his parents.
This cost-cutting ethos has enabled Southwest to expand considerably over the years. In 2019, eBay turned over $2.8 billion and employs 13,300 staff.The largest alternative investment company on the planet, Blackstone was set up in 1985 by parters Stephen A. Schwarzman and Peter G. Peterson, along with Richard Bennett, using $400,000 in seed capital. MasterCard is now the second most popular credit card company in the world after Visa, with a total of 231 million cardholders worldwide.The tech colossus was established in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at California's Stanford University, with funding provided by several investors including Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Stanford University professor David Cheriton. "I owe them a great deal," added Huang, who is worth an estimated $5.6 billion, according to Forbes. The business experienced phenomenal growth during the 1990s and became known as eBay from 1997. The business has made its founder Bezos the richest man in the world, with a current net worth of $130.7 billion.Chinese networking and telecoms giant Huawei was founded in 1987 in the city of Shenzhen by Ren Zhengfei (pictured), who cut his teeth as an engineer in the People's Liberation Army.
Today, Dell has a total of 157,000 employees and turned over $90.6 billion in 2019.Storage and data management company NetApp was established in 1992 by James Lau, David Hitz and Michael Malcolm. The company is the planet's biggest private employer, with a total of 2.2 million staff around the world.China's answer to eBay and Amazon, Alibaba was founded by Jack Ma (pictured standing) in 1999 in his apartment in Hangzhou as a business-to-business portal hooking up Chinese manufacturers with buyers in the west. He has been instrumental in managing, defining, and driving NVIDIA’s core technologies as the company has grown from a startup to a global Fortune 1000 company with a worldwide reputation for engineering and execution excellence.
The siblings changed the chain's name to Domino's in 1965 and oversaw the company's global expansion, pioneering home pizza delivery. Nowadays, the company dominates the ever-growing streaming sector and has expanded into movie and TV production.