Which company did Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found in a garage in 1976?
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Apple
Its first product was the Apple I.
💡 Did you know? Apple has at times been the world's most valuable company.
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Which software company did Bill Gates and Paul Allen found?
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Microsoft
It became famous for the Windows operating system.
💡 Did you know? The name stands for “microcomputer software”.
Which online retailer did Jeff Bezos found in 1994 (first as a bookshop)?
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Amazon
Named after the world's largest river.
💡 Did you know? Today it spans cloud services to streaming.
Which electric-car maker did Elon Musk make world-famous as its chief?
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Tesla
Named after inventor Nikola Tesla.
💡 Did you know? Musk was not the original founder but joined early.
Which social network did Mark Zuckerberg found at Harvard in 2004?
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The parent company has been called Meta since 2021.
💡 Did you know? It has billions of users worldwide.
Which search engine did Larry Page and Sergey Brin found in 1998?
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Its parent company is Alphabet.
💡 Did you know? “To google” became a verb for web searching.
Which furniture company did Sweden's Ingvar Kamprad found?
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IKEA
The name comes from his initials and home places.
💡 Did you know? Known for flat-pack, self-assembly furniture.
Which carmaker was founded by the Detroit pioneer of assembly-line production?
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Ford
His Model T made the car affordable for the masses.
💡 Did you know? The assembly line cut build time drastically.
Which German carmaker once built the “Beetle”?
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Volkswagen
The name means “people's car”.
💡 Did you know? The Beetle is one of history's best-selling cars.
Which German discount chain did brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht found?
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Aldi
The name stands for “Albrecht Discount”.
💡 Did you know? It split into Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd.
Which Swiss group is the world's largest food company?
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Nestlé
Founded by Henri Nestlé, who developed baby food.
💡 Did you know? It owns brands like Nescafé and KitKat.
Which entertainment company with Mickey Mouse as its figurehead was founded in 1923?
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The Walt Disney Company
Its first hit character was Mickey Mouse.
💡 Did you know? Today it owns Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars.
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