Tech Founders: The Visionaries

Explication : Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994 in his Seattle garage. Started as an online bookstore, the company became the world's largest e-commerce site and cloud computing leader.

Explication : Elon Musk joined Tesla in 2004 as chairman before becoming CEO. Tesla has become the car manufacturer with the highest market capitalization in the world.

Explication : Apple was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. The first product was the Apple I, a computer sold for $666.66.

Explication : Larry Page and Sergey Brin created Google in 1998 in a Menlo Park garage. The name comes from "googol," the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, symbolizing their ambition to organize the world's information.

Explication : Jack Ma founded Alibaba in 1999 in his Hangzhou apartment with 17 co-founders. The company became Asia's e-commerce giant, rivaling Amazon.

Explication : Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and colonizing Mars. SpaceX became the first private company to send astronauts to the ISS.

Explication : Jack Dorsey co-founded Twitter in 2006. The first tweet ever was "just setting up my twttr." The platform was acquired by Elon Musk in 2022 and renamed X.