A Map of the Bay Area's Top Web Companies
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Netflix100 Winchester Circle, Los Gatos, CA | (408) 540-3700
Netflix was founded in 1997 in Scotts Valley, California by Marc Randolph[citation needed] and Reed Hastings, who previously had worked together at Pure Software, along with Mitch Lowe. Hastings was inspired to start the company after being charged late fees for returning a rented copy of Apollo 13 after the due date. The Netflix website launched in April 1998 with an online version of a more traditional pay-per-rental model.
With the launch of it's streaming model Netflix has become the biggest source of North American web traffic, accounting for 24.71 percent of aggregated traffic. (Wikipedia) It is said to be worth $2 billion. -
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eBay2065 Hamilton Ave, San Jose, California | (800) 322-9266
The online auction website was founded as AuctionWeb in San Jose, California, on September 3, 1995, by French-born Iranian computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as part of a larger personal site that included, among other things, Omidyar's own tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Ebola virus. In November 1996, eBay entered into its first third-party licensing deal, with a company called Electronic Travel Auction to use SmartMarket Technology to sell plane tickets and other travel products.Growth was phenomenal; in January 1997 the site hosted 2,000,000 auctions, compared with 250,000 during the whole of 1996.[8] The company officially changed the name of its service from AuctionWeb to eBay in September 1997. (Wikipedia) Currently the company is worth $43.47 billion (Exploerdia) -
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Adobe Systems345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA | (408) 536-6000
Adobe was founded in December 1982[2] by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell the PostScript page description language.
Headquartered in San Jose, California, United States the company has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Internet application software development. (Wikipedia) Revenue in 2010 was $3.8 billion. -
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Apple1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA | (408) 996-1010
Established on April 1, 1976 in Cupertino, California, and incorporated January 3, 1977, the company was previously named Apple Computer, Inc., for its first 30 years, but removed the word Computer on January 9, 2007, to reflect the company's ongoing expansion into the consumer electronics market in addition to its traditional focus on personal computers. As of September 2010, Apple had 46,600 full time employees and 2,800 temporary full time employees worldwide and had worldwide annual sales of $65.23 billion. (Wikipedia) It's worth is valued at $255.18 billion as of March 1, 2011. -
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Mozilla Foundation650 Castro St, Mountain View, California | (650) 903-0800
Mozilla is sometimes referred to the free and open source software project that was founded in order to create the next-generation Internet suite for Netscape. The Mozilla Organization was founded in 1998 to create a new suite. On 15 July 2003, the organization was formally registered as a non-profit organization, and became Mozilla Foundation. The foundation now creates and maintains the Mozilla Firefox browser and Mozilla Thunderbird email application, among other software. The Mozilla trademark is held by the Mozilla Foundation as of 2006. (Wikipedia) -
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Yahoo!701 First Ave, Sunnyvale, CA | (408) 349-3300
Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. On January 13, 2009, Yahoo! appointed Carol Bartz, former executive chairperson of Autodesk, as its new chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors. Yahoo! grew rapidly throughout the 1990s. Like many search engines and web directories, Yahoo! diversified into a Web portal. It also made many high-profile acquisitions. Its stock price skyrocketed during the dot-com bubble, Yahoo! stocks closing at an all-time high of $118.75 a share on 3 January 2000. However, after the dot-com bubble burst, it settled at a post-bubble low of $4.05 on 26 September 2001. (Wikipedia) Yahoo! is presently worth $34.75 billion (Exploredia) -
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Linkedin2029 Stierlin Ct # 200, Mountain View, CA | (650) 687-3600
LinkedIn is a business-related social networking site. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. As of 22 March 2011, LinkedIn reports more than 100 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.
LinkedIn filed for an initial public offering on 27 January 2011. The IPO occurred on May 19. Shares, initially priced at $45, rose to $122.70 in the first day of trading. The stock closed up 109% in its first day of trading, making it the fifth-largest first day gainer in the post bubble era. (Wikipedia) -
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Google1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA | (650) 253-0000
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California.
While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, the two theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships between websites. They called this new technology PageRank, where a website's relevance was determined by the number of pages, and the importance of those pages, that linked back to the original site. (Wikipedia)
As of March 1, 2011 Google is worth $190 billion. -
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Facebook1601 S California Ave, Palo Alto, California | (650) 853-1300
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of January 2011, Facebook has more than 600 million active users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Facebook's valuation is said to be between $50-200 billion -
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WordPress is an open source blog tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It's often customized into a Content Management System. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. As of February 2011, version 3.0 had been downloaded over 32.5 million times. (Wikipedia) -
YouTube901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA | (650) 253-0000
YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. YouTube began as a venture-funded technology startup, primarily from a US$11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006. In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13, 2006. (Wikipedia) -
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Craigslist1381 9th Avenue, San Francisco, CA | (415) 566-6394
Craig Newmark began the service in 1995 as an email distribution list of friends, featuring local events in the San Francisco Bay Area, before becoming a web-based service in 1996. After incorporation as a private for-profit company in 1999, Craigslist expanded into nine more U.S. cities in 2000, four in 2001 and 2002 each, and 14 in 2003. On August 13, 2004, Newmark announced on his blog that auction giant eBay had purchased a 25% stake in the company from a former principal. Some fans of Craigslist have expressed concern that this development will affect the site's longtime non-commercial nature, but it remains to be seen what ramifications the change will actually have. As of May 2011[update], there have been no substantive changes to the usefulness or non-advertising nature of the site—no banner ads, charges for a few services provided to businesses. (Wikipedia) -
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Zynga365 Vermont Street, San Francisco, CA | (415) 252-9555
Zynga (/ˈzɪŋɡə/) is a social network game developer located in San Francisco, California, United States. The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace.
As of May 2011, Zynga's games on Facebook have nearly 250 million monthly active users. In terms of daily active users, four of Zynga's games, CityVille, FarmVille, Zynga Poker, and FrontierVille are the most widely used game applications on Facebook, with CityVille having over 20 million daily active users.
Zynga was founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus, Scott Sale, Kyle Stewart and John Doerr. They received USD $29 million in venture finance from several firms, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in July 2008, at which time they appointed former Electronic Arts Chief Creative Officer Bing Gordon to the board. In May 2011, the company was reported to to be in the process of raising an additional $500 million with a valuation at $10 billion. (Wikipedia) -
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Reddit is a social news website, owned by Condé Nast Digital, a subsidiary of Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. Users on Reddit (known as Redditors) submit links or self posts that contain original text. Other Redditors may then upvote or downvote these items and the most popular thus rise to the top (AKA, the front page). Redditors may create their own topical sections called subreddits that focus on a specific subject area. (Wikipedia) -
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Twitter was produced in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched in July. Since then Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and is estimated to have 200 million users, generating 65 million tweets a day and handling over 800,000 search queries per day.
The tipping point for Twitter's popularity was the 2007 South by Southwest (SXSW) festival. During the event, Twitter usage increased from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000. Twitter raised over US$250 million from venture capitalist funding, although exact numbers are not publicly disclosed. The company's valuation stands at about $4 billion. -
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Yelp706 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA | (415) 908-3801
Yelp combines local reviews and social networking functionality to create a local online community. Adding social web functionality to user reviews creates a de-facto reputation system, whereby site visitors can see which contributing users are the most popular, respected, and prolific, how long each has been a member, and which have interests similar to theirs. Strong peer feedback mechanisms and the featured placement of popular reviews on the site and in local newsletters help motivate contributors.Yelp was one of three projects, including Adzaar and Slide, to come out of the San Francisco incubator, MRL Ventures.
The company received $6 million in early funding from venture capital firms Mission Street, led by another former Paypal-er Max Levchin, and Bessemer Venture Partners. Additional investments were made in the amounts of $3 million by Benchmark Capital in 2006 by DAG Ventures ($3 million) and a private Investor from Laguna Beach ($5 million) in 2008. (Wikipedia) -
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Wikimedia Foundation Inc.149 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA | (415) 839-6885
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and organized under the laws of the state of Florida, where it was initially based. It operates several online collaborative wiki projects including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Incubator and Meta-Wiki. Its flagship project, Wikipedia, ranks among the top ten most-visited websites worldwide. The creation of the foundation was officially announced on June 20, 2003 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, who had been operating Wikipedia under the aegis of his company Bomis. (Wikipedia) -
Flickr was developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company, and launched in February 2004. The service emerged out of tools originally created for Ludicorp's Game Neverending, a web-based massively multiplayer online game. Flickr proved a more feasible project, and ultimately Game Neverending was shelved.
In March 2005, Yahoo! acquired Ludicorp and Flickr for a reported $35 million. The company moved from Vancouver to Yahoo! Headquarters in Sunnyvale and then moved into offices in Downtown San Francisco a few years later. (Wikipedia) -
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