IT COMPANIES & FOUNDERS

 

Set 2: Famous IT Companies and Their Founders

1. Who founded Twitter?

Answer: Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams, and Noah Glass

Twitter began as a side project of Odeo in 2006.

2. Who is the founder of Tesla (tech visionary)?

Answer: Elon Musk (co-founder)

Elon Musk joined Tesla shortly after its founding and is its key visionary.

3. Who founded Oracle Corporation?

Answer: Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates

Founded in 1977, Oracle became a database software leader.

4. Who is the founder of Alibaba?

Answer: Jack Ma

Alibaba was launched in 1999 in China as an e-commerce platform.

5. Who founded Infosys?

Answer: Narayana Murthy and six others

Infosys began in India in 1981 with a team of engineers.

6. Who founded Snapchat?

Answer: Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown, and Bobby Murphy

Snapchat was launched in 2011 as Picaboo by Stanford students.

7. Who founded Zoom Video Communications?

Answer: Eric Yuan

Founded in 2011 by a former Cisco engineer, Zoom became globally known during COVID-19.

8. Who founded Flipkart?

Answer: Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal

Flipkart, an Indian e-commerce company, was founded in 2007.

9. Who founded PayPal?

Answer: Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek

PayPal was created in 1998 as Confinity and merged with X.com (Elon Musk's company).

10. Who founded LinkedIn?

Answer: Reid Hoffman and team

LinkedIn was launched in 2003 as a professional networking platform.

Set 1: Famous IT Companies and Their Founders

1. Who is the founder of Microsoft?

Answer: Bill Gates and Paul Allen

Founded in 1975, Microsoft became a global software giant.

2. Who founded Apple Inc.?

Answer: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne

Apple was launched in a garage in 1976 in California.

3. Who is the founder of Amazon?

Answer: Jeff Bezos

Bezos launched Amazon in 1994 as an online bookstore.

4. Who founded Facebook?

Answer: Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook was launched in 2004 from Harvard dorms.

5. Who founded Google?

Answer: Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Started in 1996 as a research project at Stanford University.

6. Who founded IBM?

Answer: Charles Ranlett Flint

IBM originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.

7. Who founded Intel Corporation?

Answer: Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore

Intel was founded in 1968 and pioneered the microprocessor revolution.

8. Who founded HP (Hewlett-Packard)?

Answer: Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard

HP was established in 1939 in a garage in Palo Alto, California.

9. Who founded Dell Technologies?

Answer: Michael Dell

Dell started the company in 1984 from his college dorm room.

10. Who founded Adobe Systems?

Answer: John Warnock and Charles Geschke

Adobe was founded in 1982 and revolutionized digital publishing.