Every company and organisation 793
1 person · company
Palo Alto genetic testing company Linda Avey, Paul Cusenza and Anne Wojcicki founded in 2006; sells saliva-based ancestry and health reports and is no
1 person · organisation
Creative space for creators that Casey Neistat announced on April 5, 2018, named after his studio at 368 Broadway, New York; it announced its closure
2 people · company
Founded in Chicago in 1999 by Jason Fried, Carlos Segura and Ernest Kim as a web design firm; makes Basecamp and HEY, and David Heinemeier Hansson bui
1 person · company
Co-founded in 1979 by Robert Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet; sold network cards, switches and routers until Hewlett-Packard bought it in 2010.
1 person · company
Founded in 2009 by Chris Anderson and Jordi Muñoz; built consumer drones, then moved in 2016 to drone software for construction, engineering and minin
1 person · company
Remote-first branding and web studio that builds brand and site systems for companies and moves websites from Webflow, WordPress and Squarespace.
1 person · company
New York film company Daniel Katz, David Fenkel and John Hodges founded in 2012; produces and distributes films including Moonlight, Lady Bird and Eve
1 books · Companies
Abraaj was a Dubai-based private equity firm that raised billions for emerging market investments and collapsed in 2018 after investors found that mon
1 person · fund manager
Deep-value investment firm founded and managed by Tobias Carlisle; runs The Acquirers Fund, an actively managed exchange-traded fund.
1 person · non-profit
Non-profit impact investor founded by Jacqueline Novogratz in 2001; puts patient capital into companies serving low-income communities in Africa, Sout
1 person · company
Online advertising startup founded by Antonio García Martínez, Matthew McEachen and Argyris Zymnis; went through Y Combinator and was sold to Twitter
1 person · company
Founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke; makes Photoshop, Acrobat and the PDF format, and reported $23.8 billion in revenue in 2025.
1 person · company
Boston AI company Rana el Kaliouby and Rosalind Picard founded in 2009 as an offshoot of MIT Media Lab; read emotions from facial and vocal expression
1 person · company
Founded in 2012 by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin; lends to shoppers at checkout in instalments and is the largest US buy-now-pay-later lender.
1 person · company
Founded in Melbourne in 2014 by Nick Molnar and Anthony Eisen; lets shoppers pay in four fortnightly instalments. Block (formerly Square) bought it in
1 person · company
Investment newsletter publisher in the Agora group of Baltimore, which Bill Bonner founded in 1978 and which runs more than thirty publishing companie
7 books · Companies
The insurer whose London derivatives unit required a $182bn rescue; there is no single canonical book, and crisis-wide accounts carry much of the stor
4 books · Companies
Short-term rental marketplace whose founding story and city-by-city regulatory conflict are covered by a small but solid literature.
5 people · fund manager
Sydney venture capital firm Craig Blair and Daniel Petre founded; raised its first fund of $60 million in 2014 and was an early investor in Canva.
1 person · company
Company co-founded by neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley that makes video games as medical treatments; its EndeavorRx won FDA authorisation in June 2020 for
1 person · fund manager
Asset manager founded by Chuck Akre in 1989 in Middleburg, Virginia; runs a concentrated portfolio of compounding businesses through the Akre Focus ET
1 person · fund manager
Cryptocurrency trading firm Sam Bankman-Fried and Tara Mac Aulay founded in 2017; it filed for bankruptcy with its sister exchange FTX in November 202
1 person · publication
Alex Wieckowski's website of book recommendations, summaries and reading tips, drawn from more than 750 books he has read.
1 books · Companies
Alfa Romeo built racing and sports cars in Milan from 1910, passed through state ownership under IRI, and became a Fiat brand in 1986. It shows how en
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China's dominant e-commerce group; the literature mixes insider accounts with outside histories of Jack Ma's rise.
1 person · company
Founded in Hangzhou in 1999 by Jack Ma; runs China's Taobao and Tmall marketplaces and the Alibaba Cloud business, with revenue of ¥996 billion in fis
1 person · non-profit
Non-profit for women and nonbinary investors in venture capital; it aimed to double female checkwriters at U.S. tech venture firms from 9% to 18% by 2
1 person · fund manager
Asset manager led by CEO Wesley Gray that publishes investment research and runs low-cost active exchange-traded funds.
10 books · Companies
Search and advertising company reorganised as Alphabet in 2015, with a literature split between founding narratives and management texts by its own le
1 person · fund manager
Boston quantitative investment firm founded in 1999 by MIT professor Andrew Lo; Natixis owned it from 2007 and sold it to Virtus Investment Partners i
1 person · non-profit
Charitable organization Al-Waleed bin Talal founded in 1980, now Alwaleed Philanthropies; has set up centers and programs in higher education institut
1 person · publication
Global-affairs interview program hosted by Christiane Amanpour; premiered on PBS in September 2018 as an expanded version of the CNN International sho
1 books · Companies
The multistrategy fund that lost $6bn on natural gas spreads in 2006, then the largest hedge fund loss ever; one dedicated book exists.
7 books · Companies
Retail and cloud-computing company whose operating doctrine and Bezos-era expansion are documented by both journalists and departing executives.
1 person · company
Brentwood, Tennessee, chain of addiction treatment centers founded in 2004; runs residential and outpatient facilities and provides drug testing and l
1 person · company
Los Angeles clothing maker and retailer founded by Dov Charney in 1989; sewed its clothes in the US until bankruptcy, after which Gildan bought the br
5 books · Companies
A payments and travel franchise with a long history but a thin book literature, concentrated on the turbulent 1980s.
1 person · company
Princeton, New Jersey biotech founded in 2002 that treats rare genetic diseases such as Fabry and Pompe; John Crowley led it, and BioMarin acquired it
3 books · Companies
Amway sells household, nutrition and beauty products through independent distributors who buy at wholesale, sell at retail and earn bonuses on the vol
9 people · fund manager
Menlo Park venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz; invests from seed to growth stage and manages more than $100 bill
1 person · company
Defence technology company founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey and four partners; builds autonomous drones, counter-drone systems and the Lattice softwar
1 person · company
Founded in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi as a board linking startups with angel investors; now runs fund administration and syndicates for ven
2 books · Companies
Anglo Irish Bank lent to Irish property developers on relationship terms, grew its loan book many times over in a decade, and funded that growth in wh
4 books · Companies
AB InBev is the result of four mergers run by Jorge Paulo Lemann, Marcel Telles and Beto Sicupira: Brahma and Antarctica into AmBev in 1999, AmBev wit
1 person · company
Chinese financial technology company spun out of Alibaba; runs Alipay, which began in 2004 as Alibaba's payment system, and Jack Ma founded it as Ant
1 person · company
San Francisco AI public benefit corporation founded in January 2021 by former OpenAI members, including Daniela and Dario Amodei; it develops the Clau
1 books · Companies
AOL signed up tens of millions of dial-up subscribers in the 1990s, merged with Time Warner in 2001, and then lost its subscriber base to broadband. I
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Consumer computing and devices company whose founder cult, near-death in the 1990s and record-breaking second act have produced the deepest single-com
1 person · company
Daily deals website for software and online services, founded in March 2010 by Noah Kagan.
2 people · fund manager
Founded in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1998 by Cliff Asness, David Kabiller, John Liew and Robert Krail; runs quantitative hedge funds and mutual funds
1 person · fund manager
Value investment fund Guy Spier founded after leaving investment banking; he publishes annual letters to its investors.
1 books · Companies
Aravind performs cataract surgery in India at high volume, charges paying patients and treats the poor free, and funds itself from operations. Operato
1 books · Companies
Bill Hwang's family office, whose 2021 total-return-swap unwind cost prime brokers over $10bn; no dedicated book exists, and the best coverage sits in
1 person · company
San Jose company Adam Goldstein and Brett Adcock founded in October 2018; develops eVTOL air taxis, and United Airlines conditionally ordered two hund
1 person · university
Public research university in Tempe, Arizona, founded in 1885 as a teachers' school; enrolled 160,051 students in fall 2025.
1 person · company
Cambridge, England, chip designer founded in 1990; designs CPU cores for the ARM architecture and has been majority owned by SoftBank Group since 2016
1 person · non-profit
Philanthropy of John and Laura Arnold, founded in 2008 as the Laura and John Arnold Foundation; makes grants in criminal justice, health, education an
2 books · Companies
Arthur Andersen audited Enron, WorldCom, Waste Management and Sunbeam, and by the late 1990s its consulting arm earned more than its audit practice, w
1 person · company
San Francisco software company founded in 2008 by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein; sells a work-management app and listed o
1 person · non-profit
Non-profit founded in 1949 by Walter Paepcke as the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies; runs seminars and policy programmes from Washington, DC an
1 person · company
Dallas telecommunications holding company that began as Southwestern Bell in 1983; the third-largest wireless carrier in the United States, with reven
1 person · non-profit
Washington, DC think tank on international affairs founded in 1961 by Christian Herter and William Clayton to support cooperation between North Americ
3 people · company
Founded in Sydney in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar; makes Jira, Confluence and other software for development teams, with $5.2 billio
1 person · company
Company Travis Kalanick runs as CEO; formerly City Storage Systems, it absorbed CloudKitchens and launched as Atoms on March 13, 2026, with a focus on
1 person · company
Legal startup Justin Kan founded that combined software with a law firm for startups; raised $75 million and shut its software business in March 2020.
1 person · company
San Francisco smart lock company Yves Béhar and Jason Johnson founded in November 2012; Assa Abloy bought it in December 2017.
1 person · company
Founded in 2005 by Matt Mullenweg; runs WordPress.com and owns WooCommerce, Tumblr, Gravatar and Pocket Casts, with staff working remotely around the
1 person · fund manager
Venture fund founded by Anu Hariharan, former head of the YC Continuity Fund; backs growth-stage companies after their Series A.
1 person · organisation
Firm Eliyahu Goldratt set up, named after his father, to teach and apply the Theory of Constraints in companies around the world.
6 books · Companies
Britain's oldest merchant bank, destroyed in 1995 by one Singapore futures trader; the founding case study in rogue trading and control failure.
1 person · organisation
Blockchain built on Ethereum by Coinbase; used to trade tokenized stocks, stablecoins and crypto, to make low-fee payments and to fund wallets for sof
7 books · Companies
The first big broker-dealer to go, sold to JPMorgan in March 2008 in the run-up to Lehman.
1 person · company
MrBeast's holding company for his media channels, MrBeast Burger, Feastables and Lunchly; raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation in January 202
1 person · company
Jim Rogers's company; owns and sponsors the Rogers International Commodity Index, also known as the RICI.
1 person · company
Online portfolio network for designers and artists founded in 2005 by Scott Belsky and Matias Corea; Adobe bought it in 2012.
1 person · organisation
Research center at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, formed in 1973; led by Ash Carter until 2022 and now directed by Meghan O'S
1 books · Companies
Bell Labs was AT&T's research arm, funded by the regulated telephone monopoly, and produced the transistor, the laser, information theory, and Unix. I
1 person · company
Video-sharing company founded by Matt Hackett and YouTube filmmaker Casey Neistat; CNN bought it in November 2016, shut the Beme app in January 2017 a
1 person · fund manager
Venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Bob Kagle, Bruce Dunlevie, Andy Rachleff, Kevin Harvey and Val Vaden; partners share equally and lead early ro
2 people · university
Private liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont, founded as a women's college in 1932 and co-educational since 1969.
13 books · Companies
Buffett and Munger's textile shell turned insurance-funded conglomerate, and the most written-about investment vehicle in history.
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The $65bn Ponzi scheme run for decades out of a legitimate market-making firm, exposed in December 2008.
1 person · fund manager
Madrid fund manager with more than 35 years of history and €8,398 million under management, where Francisco García Paramés ran the investments.
1 books · Companies
Betfair built a betting exchange that matches customers against each other and takes a commission rather than setting odds as a bookmaker. Investors r
1 person · company
Cryptocurrency exchange Changpeng Zhao founded in 2017, the largest by daily trading volume; it pleaded guilty to U.S. anti-money laundering violation
1 person · non-profit
Trade association for the biotechnology industry, founded in 1993; lobbies in Washington, DC for more than 1,100 member companies and research institu
1 person · company
Platform John D. Saunders founded that provides diverse illustrations for digital projects; its illustrations have been downloaded more than 100,000 t
5 people · fund manager
Australian venture capital firm that backs startups in Australia and New Zealand from seed; early investor in Canva and Airwallex, with more than $1 b
5 books · Companies
The largest alternative asset manager, built from a two-man advisory shop in 1985.
2 people · company
Founded in 2009 by Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey as Square; runs the Square point-of-sale system, Cash App and Afterpay, processing $241 billion in pay
4 books · Companies
The video rental chain built by Wayne Huizenga, sold to Viacom and then killed by mail and streaming; one dedicated history, with the endgame told ins
1 person · organisation
Research organisation co-founded in 2017 by Don and Alex Tapscott; has run more than 70 projects on blockchain strategy and uses.
1 person · company
Company co-founded by Muneeb Ali and Ryan Shea that built the Blockstack network for decentralised apps; the network continues as Stacks, a layer buil
1 person · organisation
Blog publishing service launched in 1999 by Pyra Labs, which Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan founded; Google bought it in 2003 and hosts its blogs on b
1 person · publication
Business magazine, once called The Business Week, that debuted in New York City in September 1929; Bloomberg L.P. has owned it since 2009 and made it
2 books · Companies
Bloomberg sells one product on one price list: the Terminal, at roughly $30,000 a year per user with no discounts, to more than 300,000 subscribers, a
1 person · publication
News agency founded in 1990 by Michael Bloomberg and Matthew Winkler as a division of Bloomberg L.P.; serves Bloomberg Terminal users and Bloomberg Bu
1 person · company
For-profit online coding school launched in 2017 as Lambda School, which financed tuition with income share agreements; it made false claims about gra
1 person · company
Space company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000 in Kent, Washington; flies the New Shepard suborbital rocket and the New Glenn heavy rocket.
1 person · organisation
Bryan Johnson's longevity brand; sells the supplements, foods and personal-care products of the health protocol he follows and publishes.
1 books · Companies
BNSF formed from the 1995 merger of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe and now hauls freight across the western United States; Berkshire Hathaway bought
6 books · Companies
A duopoly aircraft maker whose engineering culture, McDonnell Douglas merger and 737 MAX crashes have produced a focused critical literature.
1 person · company
Self-storage owner and operator founded in 2011, as Storage Squad, by Nick Huber and Daniel Hagberg; began with a 51,000-square-foot facility in Ithac
1 person · company
Founded in 2005 by Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith; sells cloud file storage and content management to businesses, listed in 2015, and reported $1.09 bill
1 person · company
Chicago payments company founded by Bryan Johnson in 2007; processes mobile and web payments for online businesses, and PayPal's parent eBay bought it
1 person · fund manager
Global macro hedge fund founded in 2002 by Alan Howard and four partners, including Chris Rokos; managed a peak of $40 billion in 2013.
6 books · Companies
The world's largest hedge fund and its 'radical transparency' culture, contested between the founder's own account and the reporting on it.
1 person · company
Internet radio and video streaming company that Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner took over in 1995; Yahoo bought it in 1999, its most expensive acquisition,
1 person · fund manager
Toronto alternative asset manager led by Bruce Flatt; owns real estate, renewable power, infrastructure and private equity, with more than $1 trillion
1 person · fund manager
Wealth manager where Larry Swedroe headed financial and economic research for nearly 30 years until he left in 2024, during Buckingham's merger with t
1 person · fund manager
Warren Buffett's investment partnership; the first, Buffett Associates, formed on 5 May 1956 with seven limited partners, and he consolidated the part
1 person · company
Dating app founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014 after she left Tinder; women make the first move, and Bumble Inc. listed on Nasdaq in 2021.
1 person · fund manager
Investment adviser co-founded by Meb Faber, its chief investment officer; manages Cambria's exchange-traded funds and separate accounts.
1 person · company
Energy consultancy founded in 1983 by Daniel Yergin, James Rosenfield and Joseph Stanislaw; advises governments and companies on oil, gas and power ma
1 books · Companies
Canadian Pacific runs freight rail across Canada and, after acquiring Kansas City Southern in 2021, into Mexico. Investors read it for precision sched
1 person · company
Co-working space company in San Francisco co-founded by designer Yves Béhar.
2 people · company
Founded in Sydney in 2013 by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams; makes an online design tool with templates for presentations, posters a
1 books · Companies
Capital Cities was a small broadcaster run by Tom Murphy and Dan Burke that bought the much larger ABC network in 1985 with Berkshire's backing and so
5 books · Companies
The Washington-based buyout firm known for its defense holdings and political roster; almost nothing serious has been written about it, and the one de
1 person · university
Private research university in Pittsburgh founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1900; merged with the Mellon Institute in 1967 and is known for computer scien
1 person · fund manager
Investment firm Philip Carret founded in 1963; now Carret Asset Management.
1 person · company
Startup launched in New York in 2019 to build a proof-of-stake blockchain on Vlad Zamfir's Casper CBC research; Medha Parlikar was its CEO, and Adapti
1 person · company
AI-native job board platform from the team that built Himalayas, a remote job board, after years of running some of the biggest job boards.
1 person · company
New York media company formed in 1997 when Westinghouse Electric Corporation renamed itself; merged with Viacom in 2000 and split off again in 2005, c
1 person · fund manager
Houston energy-trading hedge fund John Arnold founded after leaving Enron; he closed it in 2012 and returned outside investors' money.
1 person · non-profit
Berkeley non-profit founded in 2012 by Julia Galef, Anna Salamon, Michael Smith and Andrew Critch; teaches workshops on reasoning and cognitive bias.
1 person · non-profit
San Francisco non-profit founded in 2018 by Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin and Randy Fernando; campaigns for technology that does not exploit users' atten
1 person · non-profit
Non-profit think tank 10 economists set up in Warsaw in August 1991 after the economic changes in Poland after 1989; researches trade, fiscal, labour
1 person · fund manager
Austin, Texas value investment firm Arnold Van Den Berg founded in 1974; advises the CM Advisors family of funds.
6 books · Companies
Chanel stays private under the Wertheimer family and reported revenue close to $20 billion in the mid-2020s, most of it from fragrance, beauty and lea
1 person · fund manager
Boutique venture fund of John Zeratsky and Jake Knapp, creator of the Design Sprint; leads pre-seed and seed rounds of up to $2 million, runs sprints
1 books · Companies
Chick-fil-A is a family-controlled US chicken restaurant chain that closes on Sundays, keeps low franchisee counts, and has grown to among the highest
1 person · publication
Journal on the Chinese economy founded by Joe Studwell, its first editor, who also co-founded the research firm Dragonomics, now Gavekal Dragonomics.
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Chrysler was the smallest of the Detroit carmakers, survived a federal loan guarantee in 1979, went through Daimler and Cerberus ownership, and ended
1 person · university
Thailand's oldest university, established in Bangkok in 1917 from a school King Chulalongkorn founded in 1899; enrolls about 41,600 students.
1 person · fund manager
Hedge fund Kenneth Griffin founded in Chicago in 1990; based in Miami, with $77 billion under management in January 2026; Griffin owns about 85% of th
1 person · company
Market-making firm Kenneth Griffin founded in 2002, based in Miami; the largest designated market maker on the New York Stock Exchange and separate fr
2 books · Companies
Citigroup came out of Sandy Weill's roll-up of Commercial Credit, Primerica, Shearson, Travelers and Salomon Brothers, which merged with Citicorp in 1
1 person · company
Hong Kong property developer, formerly Cheung Kong Property Holdings, that traces back to Cheung Kong Holdings in 1950; registered in the Cayman Islan
1 person · company
Hong Kong conglomerate formed in March 2015 by the merger of Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa; runs ports, retail, infrastructure and teleco
1 person · university
Private graduate university in Claremont, California, founded in 1925; its management school bears the name of Peter Drucker, who taught there from 19
1 person · fund manager
Global macro hedge fund founded by Peter Thiel in San Francisco in 2002; assets grew to $8 billion in 2008 and fell to about $350 million by 2011.
1 person · non-profit
Non-profit, non-partisan think tank that applies Clayton Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation to education, health care and economic developm
1 person · company
Largest US builder of manufactured and modular homes, founded by Jim Clayton in 1956 in Tennessee; Berkshire Hathaway bought it in 2003.
1 person · company
Brighton web design and user-experience consultancy founded in 2005 by Andy Budd, Jeremy Keith and Richard Rutter.
1 books · Companies
Cleveland-Cliffs has mined iron ore on the Great Lakes since 1847 and now also makes steel after buying AK Steel and ArcelorMittal USA. Investors read
1 person · publication
Digital marketing publication that has reported on the field since 1997; covers how brands measure performance, where teams invest, retail media and h
1 person · company
Founded in 2009 by Matthew Prince, Lee Holloway and Michelle Zatlyn; runs a network that speeds up and protects websites from attacks, with $2.2 billi
1 person · company
Los Angeles company that rents delivery-only commercial kitchens to restaurants; founded in 2016 and run by Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick.
1 person · publication
US business news channel launched in 1989 by NBC; broadcasts live market coverage on weekdays and runs a financial news website.
1 person · publication
Cable news channel founded by Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld in 1980 in Atlanta; it was the first channel to broadcast news 24 hours a day.
1 person · fund manager
Madrid value investment firm Francisco García Paramés founded after he left Bestinver.
8 books · Companies
The canonical global consumer brand, with a substantial history literature covering the bottling system, the formula and the cola wars.
1 person · publication
Programming blog Jeff Atwood started in 2004, on programming and human factors; Atwood later co-founded Stack Exchange.
2 people · company
Founded in San Francisco in 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam; the largest US cryptocurrency exchange, listed on Nasdaq in 2021.
2 people · fund manager
New York venture capital firm founded by Craig Shapiro in 2010; invests at seed and early stage in consumer and climate technology companies. Morgan H
1 person · company
London stockbroker and investment bank; Canaccord bought it, as Collins Stewart Hawkpoint, for $400 million in 2012.
1 person · publication
Media company Patrick O'Shaughnessy founded in 2020 to expand his podcast Invest Like the Best into a network with Business Breakdowns and Founders; p
5 people · university
Business school of Columbia University in New York, established in 1916; home of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing, named for Benjamin
3 people · university
Private Ivy League university in New York City, founded as King's College in 1754; the oldest college in New York State.
1 person · fund manager
London global macro hedge fund manager founded by Colm O'Shea, who launched the COMAC Global Macro Fund in 2006.
8 books · Companies
The largest US cable operator; despite its scale the book literature is thin, mostly policy criticism and one authorized family history.
1 person · fund manager
Investment platform Adam Fisher launched after serving at Soros Fund Management from 2017 to 2019; it runs products in two business lines, Global Macr
1 person · fund manager
Global macro hedge fund co-founded by Adam Fisher, who served as its chief investment officer from its start before joining Soros Fund Management.
1 person · company
Toronto company founded in 1995 by Mark Leonard; buys and keeps small vertical-market software businesses and reported $10.1 billion in revenue in 202
1 person · publication
Weekly newsletter and media business run by Codie Sanchez about buying and running small cash-flowing businesses.
1 person · university
Private Ivy League university in Ithaca, New York, co-founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White; 16,128 undergraduates and 10,665 postg
1 person · fund manager
Investment firm of Mark Hart, its chairman and chief investment officer; trades equities and currencies on macroeconomic themes and bet against subpri
1 person · company
Dallas public benefit company founded in 2022 by Alex Oshmyansky and Mark Cuban; sells generic drugs at cost plus a fixed markup, bypassing pharmacy b
1 books · Companies
A famously press-shy warehouse club: despite enormous investor interest there is almost no serious book-length literature about it.
1 person · government body
US agency in the Executive Office of the President, established in 1946; advises the president on economic policy and writes the annual Economic Repor
1 person · non-profit
New York think tank on US foreign policy founded in 1921; publishes Foreign Affairs and counts officials, bankers and journalists among its members.
1 person · company
Genetic testing company that offered carrier and prenatal screening; Myriad Genetics acquired it for $375 million in July 2018.
1 person · fund manager
Growth investment team inside Morgan Stanley Investment Management; Michael Mauboussin has led its Consilient Research since joining in 2020.
5 books · Companies
Angelo Mozilo's lender, the largest US mortgage originator before its 2008 sale to Bank of America; one insider book plus the subprime-industry histor
1 person · company
Training firm founded by Stephen R. Covey around his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People; merged with Franklin Quest in 1997 to form Franklin
1 person · fund manager
Seed-stage venture firm Aileen Lee started in 2012 after leaving KPCB; one of the first female-led venture capital firms.
1 person · fund manager
San Francisco venture capital firm David O. Sacks and Bill Lee founded in 2017; makes early-stage investments.
1 person · non-profit
Foundation set up by Craigslist founder Craig Newmark in 2015; funds journalism, cybersecurity, voter protection and veterans' groups.
1 person · company
Classified advertisements site that Craig Newmark started in 1995 as an email list for San Francisco events; now serves about 570 cities in 70 countri
1 person · company
Online marketplace for fonts, graphics, templates, stock photography and other design assets, founded in 2012 by Aaron Epstein, Chris Williams and Dar
1 person · fund manager
Wealth management firm founded in 1983 in Overland Park, Kansas, and majority owned by Peter Mallouk; manages about $370 billion (2025).
1 person · company
Online education platform for photographers, designers and other creative workers, co-founded in 2010 by photographer Chase Jarvis, who was its CEO fr
4 books · Companies
The 167-year-old Swiss bank that ran through Greensill, Archegos and a deposit flight into a 2023 shotgun merger with UBS.
1 books · Companies
CrossFit licensed its training method to thousands of independent gyms, charging affiliation fees rather than owning locations, and built the CrossFit
1 person · company
Buenos Aires agency Johnnie Gomez co-ran for over a decade; worked for clients in fashion, branding, advertising, illustration, editorial, store desig
1 person · company
App first called Greplin, co-founded by Daniel Gross, Shai Magzimof and Robby Walker, that pulled information from online accounts to give an overview
1 books · Companies
Cumberland Packing makes Sweet'N Low and has stayed in the Eisenstadt family in Brooklyn since 1957. It shows a single-product business defending a br
1 person · fund manager
Peter Cundill's flagship deep-value fund; it passed to Mackenzie Investments, which renamed it the Mackenzie Cundill Value Fund and later the Mackenzi
1 person · company
Los Angeles publisher of legal newspapers and maker of case-management software for courts; Charlie Munger was its chairman from 1977 to 2022.
2 people · company
NBA basketball team in Dallas founded in 1980; Mark Cuban bought it in 2000, it won the championship in 2011, and he sold a majority stake in 2023.
1 books · Companies
One of the best-performing industrial compounders ever, and almost entirely unwritten about: no standalone book exists.
1 person · non-profit
Research institute danah boyd founded in 2013 to address the social, technical, ethical, legal and policy issues of data-centric technology; she is it
1 person · publication
Financial news service and newsletter of The New York Times founded by Andrew Ross Sorkin in 2001; covers mergers, Wall Street and corporate deals.
1 books · Companies
Death Row Records dominated hip-hop sales in the early 1990s under Suge Knight and Dr. Dre, then collapsed amid violence, lawsuits, and the loss of it
1 books · Companies
Dell sold personal computers directly to customers, built to order, and used negative working capital to fund its growth before going private in 2013
1 person · company
Round Rock, Texas computer maker formed in 2016 when Michael Dell's Dell Inc. merged with EMC; sells PCs, servers and storage, with $113.5 billion in
1 person · company
Growth-marketing agency and training company founded by Julian Shapiro; publishes a growth newsletter for its community of more than 60,000 marketers.
1 person · company
Online school Michael Wong, known as Mizko, founded to sell UX/UI design and Figma courses, among them the Ultimate Figma Masterclass.
1 person · fund manager
Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the Menlo Park venture capital firm Tim Draper founded in 1985; Steve Jurvetson was a partner and backed Tesla and SpaceX the
2 people · company
News aggregator launched in 2004 by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky and Jay Adelson, where users submitted links and voted them up; relaunched
1 person · company
Machine learning company Sophie Bakalar co-founded that made software to digitize chart images; think Cell Software acquired it in 2016.
1 person · company
Webflow studio and Webflow Partner founded by two friends, Jan and Tomáš; builds and supports Webflow sites for clients including First Round and Atom
1 person · fund manager
Investment adviser founded by Pat Dorsey, former research director at Morningstar; runs one concentrated global equity strategy of 10 to 15 companies.
1 person · fund manager
Bond-focused investment manager founded by Jeffrey Gundlach in December 2009 and majority owned by its employees; managed $91.2 billion in March 2023.
1 books · Companies
Dow Jones published The Wall Street Journal and owned the market indexes and newswires under Bancroft family control until Rupert Murdoch's News Corp
1 person · fund manager
Investment company David Dreman founded and chaired; buys out-of-favour stocks on his contrarian value principles.
6 books · Companies
Michael Milken's junk bond machine, bankrupt in 1990 after the insider-trading prosecutions; the founding literature of the 1980s takeover era.
1 person · university
Private research university in Philadelphia founded in 1891 by financier Anthony J. Drexel; enrolls about 24,000 students.
1 person · company
Online community where digital designers show their work, find jobs and hire; its staff all work remotely, and Tiny owns it.
1 person · company
Conversational marketing software company David Cancel and Elias Torres founded in 2015; Salesloft acquired it in 2024.
1 person · company
Founded in 2007 by MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi with seed money from Y Combinator; sells cloud file storage and sync, with $2.52 billi
1 person · university
Private research university in Durham, North Carolina, founded in 1838 and renamed in 1924 when James B. Duke endowed it; enrolled 17,325 students in
1 person · company
Pittsburgh company founded in 2011 by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker; its app teaches more than 40 languages through game-like lessons, with $1.04 bi
1 person · fund manager
Hedge fund Stanley Druckenmiller founded in 1981 and ran while also managing Soros's Quantum Fund from 1988 to 2000; he closed it in August 2010 with
1 person · non-profit
Non-profit research lab and community space in Oakland led by Bret Victor; builds computing in which people work together with physical objects in a r
1 person · company
Boston technology company founded in 2005 that sells an AI-powered observability platform to monitor application performance, IT infrastructure, cyber
1 books · Companies
East African Airways was the joint carrier of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania from 1946 until the collapse of the East African Community broke it up in 19
1 person · fund manager
Investment firm co-founded by Christopher Begg, its CEO and chief investment officer, who also teaches at Columbia Business School.
1 books · Companies
The English East India Company traded with Asia from 1600 under a royal charter, raised capital from shareholders, ran its own army, and governed much
1 person · fund manager
Multi-family investment office co-founded by Graham Duncan that has managed money for a small group of families and their foundations since 2006.
5 books · Companies
The standard case study in disruption, but the book literature is thin: mostly founder biography and cultural history, no definitive fall narrative.
2 books · Companies
Pierre Omidyar launched AuctionWeb in 1995, and eBay charged a listing fee and a percentage of each completed sale on goods it never owned or shipped.
1 person · company
Esther Dyson's company, which she chairs; it published her Release 1.0 technology newsletter and ran the PC Forum conference.
1 person · fund manager
Boutique investment adviser of William J. Bernstein that manages portfolios for clients; not accepting new clients.
1 person · company
Company that launched the Zcash cryptocurrency in October 2016; Zcash uses zero-knowledge proofs to keep transaction details private.
1 person · publication
Investment newsletter publisher founded by Whitney Tilson; stopped publishing in 2023 and sent readers to Stansberry Research.
1 person · company
Long-term holding company Xavier Helgesen and Sieva Kozinsky founded in 2019 to buy and build businesses; Zack Onisko is a managing director, and its
8 books · Companies
The 2001 accounting fraud that destroyed Arthur Andersen and produced Sarbanes-Oxley; the most heavily documented corporate collapse of its era.
1 person · company
Chicago real estate investment trust with US office properties (NYSE: EQC); Sam Zell was its chairman from May 2014 until his death in May 2023.
1 person · fund manager
Sam Zell's Chicago private investment firm, through which he founded and controlled companies in real estate, energy and media, including Equity Resid
1 person · company
Real estate investment trust Sam Zell founded in 1984 that owns more than 400 manufactured-housing and mobile-home communities.
1 person · company
Apartment real estate investment trust founded by Sam Zell in 1969 and renamed Vivmark Residential; owns or invests in about 184,000 US rental apartme
1 person · fund manager
Investment firm where Robert Hagstrom, author of The Warren Buffett Way, has been chief investment officer since March 2019.
1 person · organisation
Blockchain with smart contracts that Vitalik Buterin conceived in 2013 and that went live on 30 July 2015; its currency, ether, is second only to bitc
1 person · non-profit
Swiss non-profit set up in 2014 to fund research and development of Ethereum, the smart-contract blockchain Vitalik Buterin conceived in 2013.
1 person · company
Digital healthcare company running four clinics, among them Kin for reproductive care (founded 2020), Pilot for men's health (2019) and Juniper for wo
1 person · company
Burlington, Massachusetts, software company that began in 2002 as the National Notification Network; sends emergency messages by phone, text and email
1 person · company
Note-taking app founded by Stepan Pachikov in 2007 and released in 2008; it syncs notes, images and web clippings across devices.
7 books · Companies
Standard Oil's largest successor and a notably closed company: the single indispensable book is Coll's, with the industry histories supplying the rest
1 person · company
Toronto holding company founded by Prem Watsa in 1985; owns property and casualty insurers and reinsurers and invests their float, with $107.8 billion
1 person · publication
Website and newsletter Shane Parrish writes on decision making, mental models and learning.
1 person · company
Privacy-first, cookieless website analytics software started in 2018 with a tweet; self-funded and run by Jack Ellis.
2 people · government body
Central banking system of the United States, created on December 23, 1913, by the Federal Reserve Act after a series of financial panics.
1 books · Companies
Ferrari builds low volumes of high-priced sports cars, races in Formula One, and listed separately from Fiat Chrysler in 2015. Investors read it for p
4 books · Companies
Fiat dominated Italian car production for a century under the Agnelli family, then absorbed Chrysler and became Fiat Chrysler under Sergio Marchionne.
1 person · fund manager
Fidelity Investments mutual fund that Peter Lynch managed from 1977 to 1990, earning an average 29.2% a year; it held $36.7 billion in September 2026.
1 person · company
San Jose robotics company Brett Adcock founded in 2022 to build humanoid robots run by artificial intelligence; valued at $39 billion in late 2025.
1 person · organisation
Georgia Tech research lab at the Scheller College of Business that studies corporate financial reporting; Charles Mulford was its founding director.
1 person · publication
Quarterly peer-reviewed journal on investment management, established in 1945 and published for the CFA Institute; William Goetzmann is its editor.
2 people · publication
London business newspaper founded in 1888; Pearson owned it from 1957 until it sold the paper to Nikkei for £844 million in 2015.
1 person · company
Comparison website founded in Sydney in 2006 by Fred Schebesta, Frank Restuccia and Jeremy Cabral; compares credit cards, loans and insurance in four
1 person · fund manager
London-listed investment trust, founded in 1926, that owns shares in UK listed companies; Lindsell Train manages it, and it sits in the FTSE 250.
2 books · Companies
Harvey Firestone built a tire company in Akron that supplied Ford and became one of the largest US rubber manufacturers before Bridgestone acquired it
1 person · fund manager
Global fund run by First Eagle Investments, a New York manager founded in Dresden in 1864 as Arnhold Brothers that manages about $181 billion.
1 person · fund manager
Quantitative investment firm that Robert Arnott chaired from 1998 before founding Research Affiliates in 2002.
1 person · fund manager
Seed-stage venture capital firm Josh Kopelman and Howard Morgan founded in 2004; it has invested in over 500 startups, including Roblox, Square and No
1 person · fund manager
Money management firm Philip Fisher founded in San Francisco in 1931 and ran until he retired in 1999 at 91; he bought innovative growth companies and
2 people · fund manager
Money manager founded by Ken Fisher in 1979, headquartered in Plano, Texas; manages more than $441 billion for individuals and institutions (2026).
1 person · fund manager
New York venture capital firm Fred Wilson and Jerry Colonna founded in 1996; it backed early internet companies and stopped new investing after the do
1 person · company
San Francisco logistics company Ryan and David Petersen founded in 2013; handles order management, freight forwarding, customs brokerage, trade financ
2 people · company
Photo and video hosting site created by Ludicorp in Vancouver in 2004, co-founded by Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield; Yahoo owned it from 2005 a
2 people · fund manager
Silicon Valley seed-stage venture firm founded by Mike Maples Jr. and Ann Miura-Ko; called Maples Investments until it took the Floodgate name in Marc
1 person · company
Miami residential real estate company Adam Neumann, the former CEO of WeWork, founded in 2022 to address the housing shortage in the United States.
1 person · publication
Newsletter Andrew Lokenauth started in 2021, sent every week, on money, investing, personal finance, stocks, crypto, real estate and building wealth.
1 person · company
Online school founded by Ran Segall that teaches designers to design websites and build them in Webflow.
3 people · publication
Business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917; known for its billionaires lists, it has been owned since 2014 by Integrated Whale Media of Hong Ko
8 books · Companies
The archetypal American mass-production company, and the subject of a deep literature on Henry Ford, the assembly line and repeated near-death turnaro
1 person · fund manager
San Francisco venture firm Kirsten Green founded in 2012 for early-stage consumer investing; backed Chime, Faire, Oura, Glossier, Dollar Shave Club an
1 person · fund manager
Fort Worth, Texas real estate private equity firm founded by Chris Powers; buys industrial and other commercial property.
2 people · publication
Business magazine founded by Henry Luce in 1929 in New York; publishes long features and ranked lists such as the Fortune 500.
3 people · fund manager
San Francisco venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery and Luke Nosek; the first institutional investor in SpaceX and Palantir,
1 person · fund manager
Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm Brad Feld co-founded in 2007 after Intensity Ventures and Mobius Venture Capital.
1 books · Companies
Fox News launched in 1996 under Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes and became the most-watched US cable news channel and the main profit source within its
1 person · company
Software company founded as Freshdesk in Chennai in 2010 by Girish Mathrubootham and Shan Krishnasamy; sells customer-service, CRM and IT-service tool
6 books · Companies
Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange, collapsed in November 2022 with roughly $8bn of customer funds missing.
1 person · company
New York hip hop clothing brand, short for "For Us, By Us", founded in 1989 by Daymond John, Carlton Brown, J. Alexander Martin and Keith Perrin.
1 person · fund manager
Investment firm founded by Russell Fuller with Richard Thaler and Daniel Kahneman; picks stocks using findings from behavioural finance.
1 person · company
Platform founded by Jack Schwager that verifies traders' track records and connects them with allocators; Neil Ramsey and RQSI acquired it in 2024.
1 person · fund manager
London investment manager founded by Terry Smith in 2010; buys and holds a concentrated portfolio of high-return quoted companies and managed £36 bill
1 person · university
Business school of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, established in 1969; enrolls more than 1,800 degree students.
1 person · company
Industrial design and branding firm Yves Béhar founded in 1999; based in San Francisco and New York City.
1 person · organisation
Think tank and clearinghouse Marc Goodman founded that researches and advises on the security and risk implications of emerging technologies.
1 person · fund manager
Early-stage venture firm co-founded by Steve Jurvetson and Maryanna Saenko; invests in frontier technologies.
1 person · company
United Kingdom eyewear brand Iman Gadzhi established in 2019; sells blue light-blocker glasses and apparel.
1 person · company
AI presentation startup Grant Lee, former head of finance at Optimizely, founded in the fall of 2020 with two former Optimizely coworkers; in 2025 it
1 person · fund manager
Venture capital firm co-founded in 1998 by Guy Kawasaki; invested in Pandora Radio, Tripwire and The Motley Fool.
2 people · non-profit
Seattle foundation launched in 2000 by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates; funds global health, poverty reduction and US education, with $91 billion
1 person · company
10-week fellowship Austen Allred founded to turn engineers into AI-First developers; four weeks of full-time remote work come before six weeks in pers
1 person · fund manager
Real estate investment company Keith Wasserman co-founded in 2008; owns apartment buildings, with a portfolio of $1.6 billion.
2 books · Companies
Robert Swanson and Herbert Boyer founded Genentech in 1976 to turn recombinant DNA into products, and it delivered human insulin, licensed to Eli Lill
1 person · fund manager
Cambridge, Massachusetts, venture firm Joel Cutler and David Fialkow founded in 2000; managed more than US$43 billion in December 2024 and backed Airb
6 books · Companies
For decades the most admired industrial conglomerate in America, now the subject of a large post-mortem literature on financialized management.
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The company that invented the modern multidivisional corporation and then spent fifty years being written about as its cautionary case.
1 person · university
Public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia, founded in 1949 as a branch of the University of Virginia and independent since 1972; its econ
1 person · university
Private research university in Washington, DC, chartered by Congress in 1821 as the Columbian College; enrolls about 24,500 students.
1 person · university
Private Jesuit university in Washington, DC, founded by Bishop John Carroll in 1789; the oldest Catholic university in the United States.
1 person · university
Public research university in Atlanta, established in 1885 as the Georgia School of Technology; enrolled 56,715 students in fall 2025.
1 person · publication
Brooklyn podcast company Alex Blumberg and Matthew Lieber founded in 2014; Spotify agreed to buy it for $230 million in 2019 and merged it into Spotif
1 person · company
Media company Sophia Amoruso founded in 2017 after Nasty Gal; made content and events for young women about work and life.
1 person · company
Software company that makes GitLab, a platform for storing code and running software builds and deployments, sold in a free community edition and paid
1 person · fund manager
Montreal investment firm François Rochon founded in December 1998; manages client money on Warren Buffett's principles and publishes letters to partne
2 books · Companies
Marc Rich and Pincus Green left Philipp Brothers in 1974 and built a trading house on spot-market crude, dealing through embargoes on Iran, South Afri
1 person · fund manager
London hedge fund firm Noam Gottesman, Pierre Lagrange and Jonathan Green founded in 1995; now Man GLG, a subsidiary of Man Group, with $35.4 billion
1 person · publication
Macro research service Raoul Pal has written since January 2005 for hedge funds, family offices, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and private inv
2 people · fund manager
Boston investment manager founded in 1977 by Jeremy Grantham, Dick Mayo and Eijk van Otterloo; invests on the view that asset prices revert to the mea
1 books · Companies
The Golden State Warriors went from a losing NBA franchise to a championship team after Joe Lacob and Peter Guber bought it in 2010 and rebuilt the fr
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The partnership that became the archetype of Wall Street power, and a magnet for institutional histories and insider exits.
1 person · non-profit
San Francisco foundation founded in 2011 by Cari Tuna and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz; plans to give away most of their fortune and had grant
1 books · Companies
Goodyear is one of the largest tire manufacturers in the world and takes its name from Charles Goodyear, who developed vulcanised rubber but earned li
1 person · company
London AI research lab founded in 2010 by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman; Google bought it in 2014 and merged it with Google Brain in
1 person · fund manager
New York investment firm run by Joel Greenblatt and Robert Goldstein, co-chief investment officers; the successor to Gotham Capital, which Goldstein j
1 person · fund manager
Hedge fund Bill Ackman and David Berkowitz set up in 1993 with $3 million; it grew to $568 million at its 2000 peak before closing.
1 person · company
Arlington, Virginia, holding company, formerly the Washington Post Company; owned The Washington Post and Newsweek, and spun off Cable One in 2015.
2 people · fund manager
Investment firm Benjamin Graham co-founded with Jerome Newman, its president, and ran until its dissolution in 1956.
1 person · publication
Twice-monthly journal of the financial markets founded by James Grant in 1983; covers credit, interest rates and the market cycle.
1 person · non-profit
Foundation the Grantham family established in 1997; funds work on climate change and on chemical toxicity.
1 person · fund manager
Value investment firm founded by Edgar Wachenheim III, its chairman and CEO; holds a concentrated portfolio of out-of-favour companies.
1 person · fund manager
New York hedge fund founded in 1996 by David Einhorn and Jeffrey Keswin; buys stocks and sells others short, and shorted Lehman Brothers before its 20
1 person · company
Property and casualty reinsurer established in 2004 with sponsorship from David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital, which manages its investments; listed on
1 person · company
Strategy consulting and research firm for financial institutions that Charles Ellis founded in 1972 and led for 30 years.
1 person · fund manager
One of the oldest venture capital firms, founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1965 by Bill Elfers and Dan Gregory; now in Menlo Park, it invests ear
1 person · fund manager
Private investment company of Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes; has invested in climate technology since 2016.
1 person · company
Content marketing agency Nat Eliason started in 2017 to produce SEO-focused content for clients' marketing teams; he left it in December 2020.
1 person · company
Online community for growth marketers, founders and product managers, founded by Sean Ellis and his team.
1 person · company
E-learning platform Iman Gadzhi established to train novice agency owners to start, sustain and scale their businesses.
1 person · company
San Francisco online marketplace founded by Sahil Lavingia in 2011; lets writers, artists and other creators sell digital products directly to their a
1 person · fund manager
Venture capital arm of Alphabet, founded as Google Ventures in 2009 by Bill Maris; invests from seed to growth stage in software, life sciences and ot
1 person · company
Conversational ticketing tool for request-based teams in Slack; it turns conversations into tickets and syncs them both ways with Jira Service Desk. F
1 person · company
Community for founders, CEOs and owners of digital, tech and internet startups that Sam Parr and Joe Speiser created; members meet monthly in Core gro
1 person · publication
Monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture and finance launched in New York in June 1850; the oldest continuously published monthly in the Unit
1 person · company
Production company Oprah Winfrey founded in Chicago in 1986; its name is Oprah spelled backwards, and it has been based in West Hollywood since 2015.
1 person · fund manager
Chicago investment manager founded in 1976 by Victor Morgenstern; runs the Oakmark Funds, owned by Natixis, and managed $96 billion in June 2025.
2 people · university
Private Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1636; the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
4 people · university
Graduate business school of Harvard University, established in 1908 in Allston, Massachusetts; publishes Harvard Business Review and teaches by the ca
2 books · Companies
HBO began selling a monthly subscription for uncut films over cable systems in 1972 and moved to satellite distribution in 1975, which made a national
1 person · university
Public research university in Jerusalem co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in 1918; Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman studied and taught th
1 person · organisation
Columbia Business School centre for the teaching and study of investing; runs the Value Investing Program, a student investment portfolio, a podcast a
1 person · fund manager
Seattle investment firm founded by Li Lu in 1997; invests in Asian companies, mainly in China, on value principles, and managed $15 billion in March 2
2 people · company
Remote job board started in 2020 by the team that later built Cavuno, job board software; it serves more than 5 million people every year.
5 books · Companies
An engineering-led outlier among Japanese automakers; English-language book coverage is unusually thin for a company of its size.
2 people · non-profit
Public policy think tank at Stanford University founded by Herbert Hoover in 1919; studies economics, history and national security from a free-market
1 person · company
Company Michael Batko co-founded and runs as CEO; it makes Aussie companies AI-native.
1 person · fund manager
Private equity firm William Thorndike founded in Boston in 1994; known for long holding periods, with offices in Boston and San Francisco.
1 person · government body
Upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; most members are appointed peers who serve for life.
2 people · company
Cambridge, Massachusetts software company founded in 2006 by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah; sells marketing, sales and customer-service software, w
1 person · publication
News website Arianna Huffington, Andrew Breitbart, Kenneth Lerer and Jonah Peretti launched on May 9, 2005; AOL bought it in 2011, and it is now a div
1 person · company
Aerospace and defense contractor Howard Hughes founded in Glendale, California, on February 14, 1934; built the H-4 Hercules and the AIM-4 Falcon, and
1 person · fund manager
Venture fund that invests in deep tech and American Dynamism; Leo Polovets announced its oversubscribed $40M second fund, Humba II, in 2024.
2 people · company
New York recommendation website founded in 2007 by Caterina Fake and Chris Dixon; eBay bought it for $80 million in November 2011 and closed the publi
1 person · fund manager
Investment adviser John Hussman founded in 1998; manages the Hussman Funds and publishes his market comments.
1 person · publication
Ramit Sethi's personal finance blog and his 2009 book of the same name, a New York Times bestseller.
1 person · company
Digital marketing agency Iman Gadzhi founded in 2017, focused on social media marketing, sales funnel optimization and online advertising.
9 books · Companies
Century-old computing company whose Watson dynasty, near-death in the early 1990s and wartime record are each the subject of major books.
1 person · company
Publicly traded partnership controlled by Carl Icahn, who owns 86%; invests in energy, automotive, food packaging, real estate and home fashion busine
4 books · Companies
A privately held, deliberately opaque retailer; most English-language books are authorized or design-historical rather than investigative.
0 books · Companies
A highly decentralized 80/20 industrial compounder; no book-length treatment of the company could be verified in Open Library.
1 person · company
Film and television production company founded in 1985 by producer Brian Grazer and director Ron Howard; Universal has distributed many of its films.
1 person · publication
Company Tom and Lisa Bilyeu co-founded to positively impact lives through storytelling; makes podcasts and sells mindset and business courses through
1 person · company
Scottsdale, Arizona trade data company Michael Kanko, David Petersen and Ryan Petersen founded in 2006; keeps a database of shipping manifests and cus
1 books · Companies
In-N-Out is a family-owned California burger chain that has stayed private, refused to franchise, and grown slowly on a menu of a few items. Operators
1 person · company
Palo Alto artificial intelligence company founded in 2022 by Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan; built the Pi chatbot.
2 people · fund manager
San Francisco venture firm founded in 2011 by Alexis Ohanian, Harj Taggar and Garry Tan; invested at seed in Coinbase, Instacart and Flexport and rais
1 person · company
Strategy consultancy founded in 2000 by Clayton Christensen and Mark Johnson; applies the theory of disruptive innovation and is part of Huron Consult
1 person · university
Graduate business school founded in 1957 with campuses in Fontainebleau, Singapore and Abu Dhabi; teaches about 1,000 MBA students a year.
1 person · company
Photo and video sharing app launched in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger; Facebook bought it in 2012, and it is now part of Meta Platforms.
1 person · organisation
Harvard Business School institute led by Michael Porter that studies the competitiveness of companies, regions and nations.
1 person · non-profit
Palo Alto non-profit think tank founded in 1968 as a spin-off from the RAND Corporation; helps organisations plan for the long-term future.
1 person · non-profit
Trade body and professional institute for UK advertising, media and marketing agencies, incorporated by Royal Charter and based in London.
8 books · Companies
Microprocessor company whose founders wrote some of the most durable management books in business, alongside a strong outside literature.
1 person · fund manager
Firm Brad Feld founded to invest in early-stage software companies, before he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and Foundry Group.
1 person · fund manager
New York value investment firm where Charles de Vaulx was chief investment officer from 2008; announced in March 2021 that it would liquidate its fund
1 person · company
Mountain View financial software company Scott Cook and Tom Proulx founded in 1983; makes TurboTax and QuickBooks and bought Credit Karma and Mailchim
1 person · publication
Stock market newspaper and website William O'Neil founded in Los Angeles in 1984; covers stocks, funds and markets for individual investors and is own
1 person · company
Personal brand development and management agency in Los Angeles co-founded by Cynthia Johnson.
1 books · Companies
Motorola launched Iridium's 66-satellite phone network in 1998; the venture went bankrupt within a year after spending about five billion dollars, and
1 person · company
London AI drug discovery company Demis Hassabis founded in 2021 as an Alphabet spin-off from DeepMind, building on AlphaFold 2.
1 books · Companies
The J.G. Boswell Company farms cotton, tomatoes, and other crops on drained lakebed land in California's Central Valley and is one of the largest priv
1 person · company
Bank J. P. Morgan founded in 1871 with Anthony Drexel; merged with Chase Manhattan Bank in 2000 and is now a subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase.
1 person · company
Q&A app from Jelly Industries, the search company Biz Stone founded with Ben Finkel in April 2013; people asked questions with photos, and Pinterest b
2 books · Companies
JetBlue launched in 2000 as a low-cost US carrier with new aircraft, leather seats, and live television, and grew quickly out of New York. Operators r
1 person · non-profit
Non-profit that runs the annual Bogleheads conference and Bogleheads University on low-cost index investing; Rick Ferri has spoken on its history and
2 people · university
Private research university in Baltimore, opened in 1876 and considered the first research university in the U.S.; named for its first benefactor, Joh
5 books · Companies
A large healthcare conglomerate long treated as a governance exemplar; book-length critical coverage arrived late and remains sparse.
2 people · publication
Quarterly academic journal on asset allocation, risk and portfolio construction, established in 1974 by Peter L. Bernstein; Frank Fabozzi is its edito
8 books · Companies
The surviving Morgan house and its Chase and Chemical antecedents; most of the literature is either dynastic history or crisis reporting.
1 person · non-profit
Non-profit co-founded by Paul Tudor Jones, Deepak Chopra and others; ranks large US companies on how the public says they should behave and publishes
2 people · company
Live video website Justin Kan, Emmett Shear, Michael Seibel and Kyle Vogt created in San Francisco in 2007; its company became Twitch Interactive in F
1 person · fund manager
Whitney Tilson's hedge fund; at its peak it managed about $200 million, and he shut it in 2017 after trailing the Standard & Poor's 500 since 2010.
1 person · university
Graduate business school of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, founded in 1908.
1 person · company
Los Angeles neurotechnology company founded by Bryan Johnson in 2016; builds helmets that measure brain activity without surgery.
2 people · fund manager
Menlo Park venture capital firm Vinod Khosla founded in 2004; backed Impossible Foods, Instacart and Affirm early, with about $15 billion under manage
1 person · university
College of the University of Cambridge founded by King Henry VI in 1441; John Maynard Keynes ran its endowment as bursar.
1 person · company
New York geopolitical consulting firm Henry Kissinger founded in 1982 and ran until his death in 2023; advises clients on partners, investments and go
8 books · Companies
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the firm that made the leveraged buyout an industry and then survived its own signature deal.
2 people · fund manager
Menlo Park venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Tom Perkins, Frank Caufield and Brook Byers; early backer of Genentech, Amazon, Goo
1 books · Companies
Koch Industries is a private American conglomerate in refining, pipelines, chemicals, and consumer products, built by Charles and David Koch on retain
1 person · company
Australian online retailer founded by Ruslan Kogan in 2006; sells electronics and runs mobile, internet, insurance and travel brands, and listed on th
1 person · company
Learning company Jim Kwik founded in 2001; taught accelerated learning in classrooms and companies, and launched as an online learning platform in 200
1 books · Companies
L.L.Bean sells outdoor clothing and gear by catalogue, online, and from its Maine stores, and stayed family-owned with a long-standing returns guarant
1 person · fund manager
Jason Calacanis's investment firm; backs early-stage startups through accelerator programmes and venture funds and teaches angel investing.
2 people · company
Financial advisory and asset management firm founded in New Orleans in 1848 by the Lazard brothers; the largest independent investment bank, with offi
1 person · non-profit
Non-profit founded by Sheryl Sandberg in 2013 alongside her book Lean In; runs Lean In Circles in 183 countries and studies women's progress at work.
3 people · fund manager
Baltimore investment manager founded in 1899; held $730.8 billion in assets at the end of 2019 and was acquired by Franklin Templeton in July 2020. Bi
8 books · Companies
The 2008 bankruptcy that turned a credit crunch into a global panic; the richest single-firm failure literature after Enron.
1 person · fund manager
London investment manager founded in 2000 by Michael Lindsell and Nick Train; holds concentrated portfolios of durable consumer, data and media compan
1 person · fund manager
London-listed investment trust (LSE: LTI) managed by Lindsell Train; it owns a stake in the manager itself.
1 person · company
San Francisco software company Jori Lallo, Karri Saarinen and Tuomas Artman founded in 2019; makes the project management software Linear and had over
1 person · company
Professional networking site launched in May 2003 by Reid Hoffman and Eric Ly; Microsoft bought it in 2016, and it earned about $19.8 billion in reven
1 person · company
Banner-advertising cooperative founded in 1996 by Tony Hsieh and Sanjay Madan, in which websites showed each other's banners; Microsoft bought it in 1
2 books · Companies
Lloyd's is a marketplace rather than an insurance company: brokers bring risks to syndicates, and until the 1990s the capital behind those syndicates
1 books · Companies
Lockheed's Skunk Works built the U-2, the SR-71, and the F-117 under small teams, tight secrecy, and unusual contracting terms. Operators read it for
1 person · company
New York holding company controlled by the Tisch family; owns CNA Financial, Boardwalk Pipelines, Loews Hotels and Altium Packaging, and cut its share
1 person · non-profit
San Francisco non-profit established in 1996 by Stewart Brand and Danny Hillis to encourage long-term thinking over the next 10,000 years; builds a cl
8 books · Companies
The Nobel-laureate arbitrage fund whose 1998 collapse forced a Fed-brokered bank rescue and became the standard parable of leverage.
1 person · publication
Podcast David Kadavy ran for nearly eight years on how to be productive when creativity matters; he quit it in 2023 after episode 308.
1 person · fund manager
Climate venture fund Chris Sacca and his wife Crystal launched in 2020 with their own money; backs decarbonisation technology.
1 person · fund manager
Venture capital firm Chris Sacca founded in 2010; gave seed and early funding to Twitter, Uber, Instagram, Twilio, Kickstarter and Stripe, and stopped
1 person · fund manager
New York venture capital firm Peter Hébert, Robert Paull and Josh Wolfe founded in 2000; invests in emerging technologies.
8 books · Companies
The dominant luxury conglomerate; serious English-language coverage is surprisingly thin and mostly sits inside broader luxury-industry books.
1 person · company
Wellness program Blake Mycoskie, founder of Toms Shoes, launched with Pat Dossett in March 2020.
1 person · publication
Economics blog that Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, both of George Mason University, have written since 2003.
1 person · company
Business coaching company Marie Forleo founded; runs B-School, the online business course she launched with Laura Roeder in May 2011.
1 person · company
Richmond, Virginia holding company founded in 1930 by Samuel Markel as an insurer; owns specialty insurers, invests their float in stocks and owns bus
1 person · fund manager
Investment adviser founded in 2006 by Michael Aronstein, who ran it as president and chief investment officer until 2023.
1 person · company
Marketing education company Allen Weiss founded in 2000; Ann Handley, earlier a co-founder of ClickZ, heads its content as chief content officer.
1 person · fund manager
Investment firm in Elkhart, Indiana, founded and owned by Frank K. Martin, its chief investment officer.
2 people · university
Private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded by William Barton Rogers in 1861; enrolled 11,816 students in fall 2025.
1 person · fund manager
Venture capital firm Paul Ferri founded in 1977, now called Matrix; invests in seed and early-stage tech companies from Cambridge, Massachusetts and S
1 person · fund manager
Dallas hedge fund founded in 1993 by Lee Ainslie, who trained under Julian Robertson at Tiger Management; holds long and short positions in shares and
1 person · fund manager
Investment company founded by Terrance McArthur that holds securities, real estate, small businesses and venture investments.
2 people · company
Leadership consultancy founded in 2011 by retired US Army general Stanley McChrystal, who commanded Joint Special Operations Command from 2003 to 2008
9 books · Companies
The franchising and real-estate model that defined fast food, with a strong founder memoir and a defining critical work.
6 books · Companies
McKinsey advises corporations and governments on strategy and organisation, and it charges for partner judgement rather than for measurable outcomes.
2 people · company
Online publishing platform for articles and blogs launched by Evan Williams in August 2012, after he had co-founded Blogger and Twitter.
1 person · company
London language-learning app founded in 2010 by Ed Cooke, Greg Detre and Ben Whately; teaches more than 140 languages with videos of native speakers.
1 person · non-profit
Free-market think tank at George Mason University, founded in 1980 and privately funded; Tyler Cowen chairs its board.
1 person · company
Brokerage founded by Charles Merrill and Edmund Lynch in 1914; sold stocks to middle-class Americans through a large force of financial advisers, and
7 books · Companies
Social networking company renamed Meta in 2021, with a literature that turns sharply from founding legend to investigative and whistleblower accounts.
1 person · company
Interface design agency that has helped startups and brands design, build and ship products since 2006.
1 books · Companies
Method sold designed, non-toxic household cleaners into a category dominated by Procter & Gamble and Unilever, and sold itself to Ecover in 2012. Oper
9 books · Companies
Software platform company whose PC-era dominance, antitrust ordeal and cloud-era revival each generated their own shelf of books.
1 person · organisation
Research arm of Microsoft created in 1991 by Richard Rashid, Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold; employs more than 1,000 computer scientists, physicists,
1 person · company
Company Kevin Rose founded in 2011; he shut it down in March 2012 when Google hired him and four others of the Milk team, including Daniel Burka.
1 person · non-profit
Santa Monica economic think tank Michael Milken founded in 1991; publishes research and hosts conferences that apply market-based principles to social
1 person · fund manager
Investment firm founded in 1999 as a joint venture between Bill Miller and Legg Mason, where Miller had been director of research from 1982.
1 person · organisation
MIT Sloan research lab directed by Andrew Lo that studies financial markets with quantitative and computational methods.
1 person · university
Business school of MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1914; the Black–Scholes model and the random walk hypothesis came from its faculty.
1 person · fund manager
SEC-registered investment adviser run by Chris Mittleman, with concentrated value portfolios; Aimia acquired Mittleman Brothers, and he became Aimia's
1 person · fund manager
Venture capital firm Brad Feld co-founded before Foundry Group and Techstars.
1 person · fund manager
Venture capital firm founded in 1983 in San Mateo, California by Bill Davidow and Lawrence Mohr Jr.; Geoffrey Moore was a venture partner.
1 person · publication
Personal finance magazine Time Inc. launched in 1972 and published monthly until 2018; now a website owned by Money Group that covers investing, credi
4 people · company
New York investment bank founded in 1935 by Henry S. Morgan and Harold Stanley; runs investment banking, wealth management and asset management, with
2 people · publication
Business newsletter that started at the University of Michigan in 2015 and grew from a campus newsletter into a media company; Axel Springer bought it
1 person · company
Chicago investment research firm founded by Joe Mansueto in 1984; rates mutual funds and stocks, and its star ratings move money into and out of funds
1 person · company
Consultancy founded by Brant Cooper, co-author of The Lean Entrepreneur, that helps large organisations adopt lean innovation methods.
1 person · publication
Blog and pseudonym of Peter Adeney, a software engineer who retired at 30 in 2005 by saving most of his salary and investing it in index funds; argues
1 person · company
London film streaming service, distributor and producer founded by Efe Cakarel; offers a curated catalogue of arthouse, documentary and independent fi
1 person · publication
Podcast on which Shaan Puri and Sam Parr brainstorm business ideas every week.
1 person · company
Los Angeles fashion retailer founded by Sophia Amoruso in 2006 as an eBay vintage shop; filed for bankruptcy and was sold to Boohoo for $40 million in
1 person · government body
Agency of the White House Office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building; designed Realfood.gov, TrumpAccounts.gov, TrumpRx.gov and Login.gov.
1 person · company
London retail and commercial bank formed in 1968 by the merger of National Provincial Bank and Westminster Bank; part of The Royal Bank of Scotland Gr
1 person · company
Investment banking arm of NatWest Group, created in 2016 from the Royal Bank of Scotland's corporate and institutional bank to separate trading from U
1 person · non-profit
National Bureau of Economic Research, a private non-profit founded in 1920 by Wesley Clair Mitchell; publishes working papers and dates the start and
1 person · company
Stockholm health company co-founded in 2018 by Spotify founder Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne; runs full-body scans that check for skin, heart and oth
8 books · Companies
The world's largest food company, yet with strikingly little English-language book coverage outside the infant-formula controversy.
8 books · Companies
DVD-by-mail company turned streaming studio, unusually well documented by its own founders as well as by outside reporters.
1 person · company
Founded in 1994 by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark; its Netscape Navigator browser held more than 90% of the market in the mid-1990s, and AOL bought the
1 person · organisation
School Balaji Srinivasan started in September 2024 in Forest City, Johor, Malaysia, on health, technology and startup societies; Malaysia shut it in J
1 person · organisation
UCSF research center Adam Gazzaley formed in 2016 from his lab, the Neuroscience Imaging Center and Neuroscape Lab; builds video games to assess and i
1 person · publication
Biweekly magazine Clay Felker and Milton Glaser founded in 1968; a cradle of New Journalism, it was named Magazine of the Year in 2013.
1 person · publication
Non-profit that runs WNYC and WQXR radio in New York, incorporated in 1979; Laura Walker led it as president and CEO from 1995 to 2019.
7 books · Companies
Rupert Murdoch turned one Adelaide newspaper into a group holding British and American papers, Fox, HarperCollins and Sky, then split it in 2013 into
1 books · Companies
Steve Jobs founded NeXT in 1985 after leaving Apple; it sold few workstations, shifted to software, and Apple bought it in 1996 for its operating syst
9 books · Companies
The marketing-led athletic brand, covered by one very successful founder memoir and a small set of unauthorized histories.
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Finnish handset maker that led global mobile phones and then lost the smartphone transition, producing a compact literature of post-mortems.
1 person · fund manager
London fund Nick Sleep and Qais Zakaria co-founded and managed from 2001 to 2014, holding a few companies for the long term; Stripe Press published it
1 person · company
Website for digital nomads launched in 2014 as Nomad List and now called Nomads.com; ranks cities by cost of living, internet speed and weather and ho
7 books · Companies
The Newcastle building society turned wholesale-funded lender whose September 2007 queues were Britain's first bank run since 1866.
1 person · publication
Newsletter by Packy McCormick on technology strategy and startups, sent to more than 250k subscribers.
1 person · company
Productivity and note-taking application from Notion Labs, first released in 2016, for notes, knowledge management, data organization and project and
1 person · company
Software company in Provo, Utah, founded in 1980; its NetWare system dominated PC local-area networking in the late 1980s and 1990s, and Attachmate bo
2 books · Companies
Nucor became the largest steelmaker in the United States by melting scrap in electric arc minimills instead of running blast furnaces, and by paying w
5 books · Companies
Graphics-chip designer that became the central supplier of AI compute; its literature is recent and still thin relative to its size.
1 person · university
New York University, a private research university founded in 1831 by Albert Gallatin, with its main campus around Washington Square Park; enrolled 61
3 people · university
Business school of New York University, founded in 1900 as the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance and renamed in 1988 for Leonard N. Stern.
1 person · university
Engineering school of New York University in Brooklyn, tracing its roots to 1854; formerly Polytechnic University, it merged with NYU in 2014.
1 person · publication
Founded by Tim O'Reilly in 1978; publishes programming books with animal woodcuts on their covers and runs an online learning platform for technical s
2 people · fund manager
Quantitative asset manager founded by James O'Shaughnessy, author of What Works on Wall Street; Franklin Templeton acquired it in 2021.
2 people · fund manager
Investment company founded by Jim O'Shaughnessy, its CEO; invests in startups and funds fellowships and grants.
1 person · fund manager
Los Angeles manager founded in 1995 by Howard Marks, Bruce Karsh and three colleagues from TCW; invests in distressed debt and credit, managed $223 bi
1 person · fund manager
Venture capital firm Evan Williams, a co-founder of Twitter, co-founded in 2014.
1 person · company
Offshore talent company Ian Myers launched in December 2021; it places vetted staff from Sri Lanka with companies and reached $15M in annual recurring
1 person · company
Virtual reality headset maker founded by Palmer Luckey in 2012; Facebook bought it in 2014, and it is now Reality Labs, which makes the Meta Quest hea
1 person · company
UK arm of Ogilvy, the advertising agency formed in 1964 when a London agency merged with the New York firm David Ogilvy founded in 1948; part of WPP.
1 person · company
Cryptocurrency exchange Star Xu founded in 2013; it grew into OKX, which is based in San Jose, California.
1 person · non-profit
Grant-making network founded by George Soros in 1993; has spent more than $24.2 billion since then and holds over $23 billion in assets.
8 books · Companies
AI research lab turned product company whose nonprofit-to-capped-profit conversion and 2023 board crisis made it the subject of a fast-growing literat
1 person · company
San Francisco company founded in 2014 by Keith Rabois, Eric Wu, Ian Wong and JD Ross; makes instant cash offers on homes, repairs them and resells the
1 person · company
Access-control company co-founded in 2016 by security researcher Samy Kamkar; makes systems that open office doors with a phone.
1 person · company
Online restaurant reservation service founded in San Francisco in 1998 by Chuck Templeton, Sid Gorham and Eric Moe; covers more than 55,000 restaurant
1 person · publication
Cable channel Oprah Winfrey founded, launched on January 1, 2011 in place of the Discovery Health Channel; owned by Skydance, with a minority stake he
1 person · company
Founded in 1999 by Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz and Tim Howes as Loudcloud, a hosting company; became Opsware, a server-automation software maker, an
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Oracle sold the first commercial SQL relational database in 1979 and built a sales organisation that Larry Ellison drove on quota and commission. It b
1 person · university
Collegiate research university in Oxford, England, with teaching recorded from 1096; the oldest university in the English-speaking world.
1 person · fund manager
Mohnish Pabrai's private value funds; his firm also manages the Pabrai Wagons ETF, about $1.4 billion in total.
1 person · company
Independent bookstore in Bastrop, Texas, owned by Ryan Holiday; also serves as his office and the studio where he records podcasts and videos.
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Government and enterprise data-analytics company whose secrecy, defence contracts and ideological founders have only recently drawn book-length treatm
1 books · Companies
Juan Trippe built Pan American World Airways into the dominant US international carrier, then it lost its protected routes after deregulation and shut
1 books · Companies
Patagonia makes outdoor clothing, limits its own growth, and transferred ownership in 2022 to a trust and non-profit that direct profits to environmen
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PayPal came from the 2000 merger of Elon Musk's X.com and Peter Thiel's Confinity, listed in 2002 and sold to eBay for $1.5 billion months later. It b
1 person · company
Mountain View company founded in 2011 that developed truck platooning, letting pairs of trucks drive close together to save fuel; the first to test co
5 books · Companies
Consistently less written about than Coca-Cola; the literature is mainly executive memoir plus the cola-wars accounts.
1 person · fund manager
Columbia, Missouri firm Brent Beshore founded in 2007 to buy good private companies and keep them.
1 person · fund manager
New York activist hedge fund Bill Ackman founded on 1 January 2004; buys large stakes and presses management for change, and managed $19.7 billion in
1 books · Companies
Kiewit is an employee-owned construction and engineering contractor in Omaha that built highways, dams, and mines across North America. Investors read
1 person · company
New York consulting firm Peter Bernstein ran from 1973 until his retirement; advised institutional investors and published Economics & Portfolio Strat
1 person · non-profit
Washington, DC think tank on international economics founded by C. Fred Bergsten in 1981 as the Institute for International Economics; Adam Posen has
1 person · company
Social media site for saving and discovering images on digital pinboards, founded in 2009 by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp; reported $4.
1 person · fund manager
Mutual fund Philip Carret founded in 1928 and managed for 55 years, during which $10,000 grew to $8 million; one of the oldest US mutual funds.
1 person · fund manager
Investment and incubation company Melinda French Gates founded in 2015; funds work to advance women's power and influence in the United States.
2 books · Companies
Pixar built the first computer-animated feature studio and released a run of hits from Toy Story onward before Disney bought it in 2006. Operators rea
1 person · company
Agentic marketing platform founded by Bryant Chou, co-founder and former CTO of Webflow; its marketing and web design agents monitor a company's websi
1 person · company
UK app that helps people save and invest automatically and manage their budget and bills.
1 person · fund manager
Anthony Pompliano's private, permanent capital vehicle, which invests in public and private markets.
1 person · fund manager
Low-fee investment advisory firm founded by Rick Ferri that built client portfolios from index funds and ETFs.
1 person · fund manager
Investment firm led by Patrick O'Shaughnessy that backs founders pursuing their life's work; its team also runs the Colossus media business.
1 books · Companies
Power Corporation is a Montreal holding company that Paul Desmarais built into a controlling owner of insurers and asset managers, including Great-Wes
1 person · company
Social networking and microblogging site started by Kevin Rose, Leah Culver and Daniel Burka in June 2007; Six Apart bought it and shut it down in Dec
2 people · university
Private Ivy League university in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1746 as the College of New Jersey; the fourth-oldest college in the United States.
1 person · fund manager
Hedge fund Edward Thorp and Jay Regan founded in 1969 as Convertible Hedge Associates and renamed in 1974; Thorp called it the first market-neutral he
1 person · company
Sunnyvale, California software company Andrey Usoltsev and Alexey Moiseenkov founded in 2016; its Prisma app redraws photos in artistic styles, and it
7 books · Companies
The company that invented brand management; its literature is mostly management doctrine plus a small number of critical and scholarly histories.
1 person · company
Website for sharing and voting on new products, founded by Ryan Hoover in November 2013; AngelList owns it.
1 person · fund manager
Investment firm Anthony Pompliano founded and runs as CEO; it has incubated nine profitable companies and invests across public and private markets.
1 person · fund manager
Sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia, created in 1971 and chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman; held about US$900 billion in assets in May 202
8 books · Companies
The private maker of OxyContin; the opioid litigation produced an unusually strong and recent investigative literature.
1 person · company
Survey software KISSmetrics founded as KISSinsights in 2010; Sean Ellis acquired it when it was spun off in 2012, and ProProfs bought it in February 2
1 person · company
Consulting firm Lawrence Cunningham founded and runs as managing partner; it grew out of his Quality Shareholders Initiative at George Washington Univ
1 person · company
El Segundo, California food company Tom Bilyeu, Mike Osborn and Ron Penna founded in 2010; makes protein bars, chips, shakes and powder, and The Simpl
1 person · company
Company Susan Cain launched in 2014 after her book Quiet; makes programmes for introverts in schools, families and workplaces.
1 person · company
Collaborative document and spreadsheet software Bret Taylor and Kevin Gibbs founded in San Francisco in 2012; Salesforce has owned it since 2016.
1 person · company
Online team-building game for remote teams, co-founded by Nathan Murphy, its chief marketing officer.
1 books · Companies
R.C. Willey is a Utah furniture and appliance retailer that Berkshire Hathaway bought in 1995 and that expanded to other states while keeping its prac
1 person · company
Cost segregation firm that prepares engineered studies and rapid reports to cut real estate owners' taxes; says it has saved $2B+ in taxes across 20,0
1 person · publication
Investment media brand Raoul Pal, Grant Williams and Damien Horner co-founded in 2014.
1 person · company
CEO coaching and leadership development firm co-founded by Jerry Colonna, its CEO.
1 person · publication
Technology news site Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher founded in January 2014 after leaving All Things Digital; Vox Media bought it in 2015 and retired
1 person · company
Online marketplace for reselling wedding dresses and accessories that Tracy DiNunzio launched in 2009, before she founded Tradesy.
1 books · Companies
Reddit runs a user-moderated discussion network, was bought by Condé Nast in 2006, later spun out, and went public in 2024. Investors read it for a pl
1 person · fund manager
Australian venture capital firm founded by Danny Gilligan and Simon Cant; Westpac is the largest investor in its funds, which back financial technolog
1 person · company
Long Beach rocket company Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone founded in 2015; develops the Terran R launch vehicle, and Eric Schmidt is its CEO.
1 books · Companies
Dhirubhai Ambani built Reliance from textile trading into India's largest private company across petrochemicals, refining, retail, and telecoms, and h
5 books · Companies
Jim Simons's quantitative fund, whose Medallion returns are the best on record; extreme secrecy means one book carries the subject.
2 people · fund manager
Investment firm Robert Arnott founded in 2002; created the RAFI fundamental indexes, which weight companies by sales, earnings and dividends rather th
1 person · non-profit
Nonprofit global health organization led by Tom Frieden, former director of the CDC; works on epidemic prevention, blood pressure control and healthie
1 person · publication
Financial commentary service founded in 1999 as Breakingviews.com; Thomson Reuters bought it in 2009 and publishes it as Reuters Breakingviews.
1 person · company
San Francisco internet television network founded in 2005 by Jay Adelson, David Prager and Kevin Rose; produced technology and gaming shows and closed
1 person · university
Private art school in Providence founded in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf; about 2,000 undergraduate and 500 graduate students in 19 majors.
1 person · company
Robert Kiyosaki's company; provides personal finance and business education through books and videos.
1 person · fund manager
Edward Thorp's second hedge fund, which ran from August 1994 to September 2002 using statistical arbitrage.
1 person · company
Positioning consultancy founded by Al Ries, the originator of positioning, and run by his daughter Laura Ries for three decades.
7 books · Companies
The 1988 leveraged buyout that closed the decade of debt; Burrough and Helyar dominate the deal literature, and the tobacco histories carry the busine
1 person · non-profit
New York charity founded in 1988 by Paul Tudor Jones, Peter Borish, Glenn Dubin, David Saltzman and Maurice Chessa; funds programmes that fight povert
1 person · company
Menlo Park brokerage founded in 2013 by Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt; offers commission-free trading in stocks, options and cryptocurrency through a mob
1 person · company
Company through which Adam Robinson works as a global macro advisor to the heads of some of the world's largest hedge funds.
1 person · fund manager
Investment firm co-founded by Clayton Christensen and his son Matthew; applies the theory of disruptive innovation to its investments.
1 books · Companies
Ryanair adopted the Southwest model in Europe, cut fares and services, and became the continent's largest airline by passenger numbers under Michael O
1 person · company
New York company founded in 1917 as McGraw-Hill; runs S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence and the S&P Dow Jones Indices joint venture,
1 person · company
AI company Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy founded in June 2024 to develop a safe superintelligence; valued at $30 billion in March 2025;
1 books · Companies
Salesforce sold customer relationship software as a subscription service from 1999 and established the software-as-a-service model that most enterpris
7 books · Companies
The bond house that invented mortgage trading and nearly died in the 1991 Treasury auction scandal, saved by Warren Buffett as interim chairman.
1 person · company
Membership warehouse club chain Walmart founder Sam Walton started in 1983 as Sam's Wholesale Club; a Walmart subsidiary that operated 602 clubs in Ma
7 books · Companies
The chaebol that became the world's largest electronics maker; a small but sharp literature covers the Lee family and the Sony rivalry.
1 person · university
Public university in San Jose, California, established in 1857 as the state's first normal school; the founding campus of the California State Univers
1 person · fund manager
London asset manager founded in 1804 by the Schröder family; managed £823.7 billion in 2025 and was bought by Nuveen in September 2026.
1 person · fund manager
Hedge fund founded by Michael Burry in 2000 in California; profited from betting against subprime mortgages before the 2008 crisis.
1 person · fund manager
Hedge fund founded by Adam Weiss and James Crichton; it closed in 2014 after 15 years, when it managed $5 billion.
1 person · company
Publishing company that helps entrepreneurs, executives and experts write, publish and market their books; it reports 3,000+ books published, among th
1 person · non-profit
Non-profit that teaches mindfulness and emotional intelligence to leaders; the course began at Google in 2007, where Chade-Meng Tan developed it.
7 books · Companies
The dominant American retailer of the twentieth century; the best books are from before the collapse, and the Lampert era lacks a definitive history.
1 person · company
NFL team in Seattle that joined the league in 1976; plays its home games at Lumen Field and is the only NFL team in the Pacific Northwest.
1 books · Companies
See's Candies makes boxed chocolates on the US West Coast and has been owned by Berkshire Hathaway since 1972, when Buffett paid twenty-five million d
1 person · fund manager
London seed-stage venture capital fund launched in May 2007 by 30 European investors; its portfolio of over 550 companies includes Revolut, Wise and U
1 person · company
Australia's largest employment website, founded in Melbourne in 1997 by Andrew Bassat, Paul Bassat and Matt Rockman; also operates job sites across As
1 person · company
Brazilian industrial company where Ricardo Semler let employees set their own hours and pay; revenue grew from $4 million in 1982 to $212 million in 2
1 person · university
Research-led medical school in Budapest founded in 1769, with six faculties and a doctoral school; it is also the largest healthcare provider in Hunga
1 person · fund manager
Semper Augustus Investments Group, an investment firm whose president and chief investment officer is Christopher Bloomstran; known for long annual cl
1 person · fund manager
Menlo Park venture capital firm Don Valentine founded in 1972; backed Apple, ByteDance and Cisco, and managed about US$56 billion in January 2025.
1 person · fund manager
Mutual fund Ruane Cunniff has advised since July 15, 1970; it reorganized into Sequoia ETF, trading on the NYSE under the ticker SEQ, on October 19, 2
1 person · company
Ottawa e-commerce software company founded in 2006 by Tobi Lütke, Daniel Weinand and Scott Lake; its merchants processed $292.3 billion in sales in 20
0 books · Companies
The venture-ecosystem bank whose March 2023 deposit run was the fastest in US history; book-length coverage amounts to one academic history, with the
1 person · company
Firm founded by Marty Cagan that teaches technology companies how to run product management and product discovery.
1 person · company
Formerly ProCap Financial, founded in 2025, which raised more than $750 million and trades on Nasdaq; in September 2026 it said it would take the name
2 people · organisation
Silicon Valley company founded by Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil in 2008; sells executive programmes on exponential technologies and is not an accre
1 person · company
Content marketing company Tom Gerace founded in 2010; sells Skyword360, a platform for content strategy and operations, and merged with TrackMaven, ke
1 person · company
Team communication platform made by Slack Technologies, which Salesforce has owned since 2021; uses a freemium model and sells mainly to businesses.
1 person · company
Santa Monica company founded in 2011 by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown; makes Snapchat, Spectacles and Bitmoji, with $5.93 billion in rev
1 person · fund manager
Palo Alto venture capital firm Chamath Palihapitiya, Mamoon Hamid and Ted Maidenberg founded in 2011 as Social+Capital Partnership; manages about $2B.
5 books · Companies
Masayoshi Son built SoftBank from Japanese software distribution into a telecom operator and then into the world's largest venture investor through th
1 person · company
AI alignment startup Emmett Shear co-founded in March 2025 with Adam Goldstein and David Bloomin.
1 person · company
Recruiting company that places remote hires for a one-time fee and runs an employer-of-record service for payroll, benefits and compliance; also sells
6 books · Companies
Japanese electronics and entertainment group whose postwar rise, Hollywood purchases and loss of the portable-music franchise anchor its literature.
4 people · fund manager
Investment firm George Soros founded in New York in 1970 as a hedge fund; ran the Quantum Fund, and has operated as a family office since the early 20
7 books · Companies
The low-cost carrier model; the literature is largely admiring culture-and-management writing rather than investigative history.
1 person · company
Sydney investment company founded in 2016; launched Spaceship Super in 2017, Spaceship Voyager in 2018 and a US investing service in 2023, and has 200
9 books · Companies
Launch company that made reusable rockets routine; its literature is dominated by close-access engineering narratives.
1 person · company
On-chain advertising and attribution platform Antonio García Martínez founded in 2022; Coinbase acquired it on 31 January 2025.
1 person · company
Music streaming service founded in Stockholm in 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon; had 788 million monthly users, 306 million of them paying, in
1 person · company
Drug company that won FDA approval in August 2015 for Addyi, the first drug for low libido in women; Cindy Eckert sold it to Valeant for $1 billion an
1 person · fund manager
Australian venture capital firm Paul Bassat, co-founder of SEEK, co-founded in 2012 to back founders building global businesses.
1 person · company
Article-writing site Seth Godin founded in 2005, where users built pages called lenses and shared the revenue; it held 1.5 million lenses in 2010, and
1 person · company
Sahil Bloom's personal holding company of ten cash-flowing business assets, which he owns and operates.
1 person · fund manager
Stage- and sector-agnostic technology venture investment fund that Sahil Bloom founded and runs as managing partner.
1 person · company
Network of question-and-answer websites modeled on Stack Overflow, which Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky created in 2008; owned by Prosus.
10 books · Companies
The trust whose breakup shaped American antitrust law, and the subject of the founding work of investigative business journalism.
2 people · university
Stanford University, a private research university in California founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford; it admitted its first students in 1891.
1 person · university
Graduate business school of Stanford University, established in 1925; offers MBA, mid-career and PhD programmes.
1 person · publication
Baltimore investment newsletter publisher founded by Porter Stansberry in 1999; sells monthly advisory letters written by a range of editors, Whitney
6 books · Companies
A retail brand whose literature is dominated by Howard Schultz's three memoirs, with a thinner critical and cultural strand.
1 person · company
AI joint venture of OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and MGX announced on January 21, 2025; plans to spend up to US$500 billion on AI infrastructure in the Un
2 people · fund manager
Australian startup accelerator created by Niki Scevak; under CEO Michael Batko from 2018 it backed more than 220 companies with first cheques.
1 person · company
Company co-founded by Justin Kan that runs webshops, in-app payments, launchers and loyalty programs for game developers.
1 person · government body
United States Department of State, formed in 1789; runs US foreign policy, embassies and treaty negotiations.
1 books · Companies
George Mecherle founded State Farm in 1922 as a mutual auto insurer for farmers and it grew into the largest US personal lines insurer, owned by its p
1 person · fund manager
Investment firm Bill Stewart founded about a year after Alliance-Bernstein acquired W.P. Stewart & Co. at year-end 2013; its team moved to Ingalls & S
1 person · fund manager
Palo Alto, California fund Adam Weiss launched after Scout Capital closed in 2014, to run a smaller, simpler and faster fund than Scout; it also looks
1 person · fund manager
Investment firm Hamilton Helmer founded in 2013 that applies his 7 Powers framework; Helmer had run a strategy consultancy since leaving Bain in 1984.
2 people · company
Founded in 2009 by Patrick and John Collison; processes online payments for businesses and handled more than $1.9 trillion in payment volume in 2025.
1 person · company
Online activewear retailer founded in Sydney in 2012 by Julie Stevanja and her sister Sally; collapsed and was revived under new owners in 2019.
2 people · company
Computer maker founded in 1982 by Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, Andy Bechtolsheim and Bill Joy; built Unix workstations and servers and created Java, a
1 person · company
Data analytics company Julie Zhuo co-founded in 2020 after 14 years at Facebook.
1 person · company
Startup Marissa Mayer founded in 2018 as Lumi Labs after leaving Yahoo; made consumer apps and was later dissolved.
1 person · fund manager
Seed-stage venture firm co-founded by Leo Polovets; leads seed rounds in software, fintech, logistics and healthcare in the US and Canada.
1 person · fund manager
San Francisco seed fund founded in 2009 by Ron Conway and David Lee; invests in software and AI startups.
1 person · company
Lexington, Massachusetts biotech company founded by Safi Bahcall, its CEO, after he worked as a consultant on pharmaceutical mergers.
1 person · company
AI math tutor for children aged 5-11 that began as a class at the experimental school on the SpaceX campus; over 100,000 students have used it.
1 person · fund manager
Hedge fund firm whose managing partners were Whitney Tilson and Glenn Tongue; it managed about $262 million in February 2011.
1 books · Companies
Glen Bell opened the first Taco Bell in 1962, franchised it through the 1960s, and sold to PepsiCo in 1978; the chain is now part of Yum! Brands. Oper
1 person · company
New York video game company founded in 1993; owns Rockstar Games, 2K and Zynga, publishes Grand Theft Auto, and Strauss Zelnick has been chairman and
1 person · fund manager
Texas hedge fund where Mark Hart was a portfolio manager before he left to found Corriente in 2001.
9 books · Companies
India's oldest large industrial group, with an unusual trust ownership structure and a literature dominated by authorized histories.
1 person · company
Los Angeles investment firm founded in 2010 by Peter Chernin and Jesse Jacobs, also called the Chernin Group; invests in media, entertainment, technol
1 person · fund manager
Startup accelerator and venture firm founded in Boulder, Colorado in 2006 by David Cohen, Brad Feld, David Brown and Jared Polis; gives early-stage fo
2 books · Companies
Henry Singleton and George Kozmetsky founded Teledyne in 1960 and acquired about 130 companies through the 1960s, paying with stock while it traded at
1 person · fund manager
Mutual fund John Templeton created in 1954; it averaged growth of over 15% a year for 38 years.
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AI transformation partner that audits companies for AI use cases, runs change management and sells outcome-based engineering squads that charge for fe
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Electric vehicle and energy company whose survival, production crises and founder have produced both admiring and adversarial book-length accounts.
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Consulting firm Alfred Rappaport co-founded with Carl Noble Jr in Skokie, Illinois, in 1979; built financial models to value mergers and strategies, a
1 person · publication
Magazine founded in Boston in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly by a group that included Ralph Waldo Emerson; now based in Washington, DC and owned by Laur
1 person · publication
Persona of Australian personal finance writer Scott Pape; his book The Barefoot Investor sets out a plan for budgeting, saving and investing.
1 person · fund manager
Boston investment firm founded in 1982 by William Poorvu and partners, who asked Seth Klarman to run it; invests in undervalued securities with a focu
1 books · Companies
The Buffalo News is a daily newspaper that Warren Buffett bought in 1977 and ran through a costly circulation war before it became the city's only dai
1 person · company
Digital agriculture company David Friedberg and Siraj Khaliq founded in San Francisco in 2006; examined weather, soil and field data for farmers, and
1 person · publication
Stoicism website and podcast of Ryan Holiday, who wrote the 2016 book The Daily Stoic with Stephen Hanselman and has hosted The Daily Stoic Podcast si
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London weekly founded by James Wilson in 1843; covers economics, business and politics without bylines and had 1.2 million subscribers in 2025.
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Estee Lauder sells prestige cosmetics and fragrance through department store counters, specialty retail and airport travel retail, with brands includi
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Newsletter and podcast by Mario Gabriele on the people, companies and technologies shaping the future.
1 person · company
Home improvement retailer Bernard Marcus, Arthur Blank and others founded in 1978; the largest in the United States, with $159.5 billion in revenue in
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Business and technology media company and daily newsletter founded by Sam Parr; HubSpot acquired it in February 2021.
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Peer-reviewed journal of the American Finance Association, established in 1946; one of the leading academic journals in finance.
1 person · publication
Visual newsletter about life through the lens of making things, written by Coleen Baik, an artist, designer and writer based in NYC.
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Blog Maria Popova started in 2006 as Brain Pickings and renamed The Marginalian on its 15th anniversary in October 2021; covers books, the arts, philo
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Research group directed by Bertalan Meskó that analyses how new technologies change medicine and healthcare.
1 person · publication
Investing advice company founded in July 1993 by brothers David and Tom Gardner with Todd Etter and Erik Rydholm; based in Alexandria, Virginia, and s
1 person · company
New York online career platform Kathryn Minshew, Alexandra Cavoulacos and Melissa McCreery founded in 2011 as The Daily Muse.
1 books · Companies
The New York Times moved from print advertising to paid digital subscriptions and now earns most of its revenue from readers rather than advertisers.
2 people · publication
Weekly magazine founded by Harold Ross and Jane Grant in 1925; publishes reporting, essays, fiction and cartoons, with David Remnick as editor and Con
1 books · Companies
Doris Christopher started The Pampered Chef in 1980 selling kitchen tools through home parties and built a large direct-sales force before Berkshire H
1 person · publication
Quarterly literary magazine Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton founded in Paris in 1953; known for its Writers at Work interviews.
1 person · fund manager
Investment firm Cindy Eckert set up in 2016 after selling Sprout Pharmaceuticals; invests in and mentors companies led by women.
1 person · company
Test preparation and tutoring company founded in 1981 by John Katzman and Adam Robinson; publishes guidebooks and college rankings.
1 person · fund manager
Company David Friedberg founded in 2016 to build and finance startups in food, agriculture, decarbonization and life sciences; raised $300 million in
1 person · company
Branding and consulting agency founded by Daymond John that works with companies and speakers.
1 person · company
11-room inn on Rosendale's Main Street in the Hudson Valley that Audrey Gelman opened in June; its restaurant is The Feathers, and its shop serves as
1 person · company
Management consulting firm founded by Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team; works on organisational health and teamwork.
1 person · company
Privately owned group of Donald Trump's businesses, started in 1927 as E. Trump & Son; holds hotels, golf courses and real estate, and Trump led it fr
8 books · Companies
Vanguard is owned by its own funds, so profits return to fund shareholders as lower fees, and its largest index funds now charge a few basis points on
5 people · publication
New York business newspaper founded in 1889 by Charles Dow, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser; published by Dow Jones, part of News Corp.
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An IP conglomerate whose succession fights and CEO memoirs have produced one of the richest corporate literatures in media.
2 people · university
Business school of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, founded in 1881 with a gift from Joseph Wharton; the oldest collegiate business sch
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Women's co-working space and social club Audrey Gelman and Lauren Kassan launched in New York City in October 2016; raised $32 million in a series B l
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Investment newsletter Martin Zweig wrote, in which he used indicators such as put options to forecast the stock market.
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Elizabeth Holmes's blood-testing startup, valued at $9bn on a machine that did not work; the literature is essentially one book, since the reporting t
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Los Angeles investment firm Peter Thiel formed in 2011 to manage his money and support his ventures; it incubated Founders Fund, Mithril and Valar Ven
1 person · fund manager
New York value investment firm founded by Martin Whitman, who ran the Third Avenue Value Fund and bought the securities of distressed and undervalued
1 person · fund manager
New York hedge fund founded by Daniel Loeb in 1995; buys stakes in companies going through events such as spinoffs or bankruptcies and pushes for chan
1 person · company
New York behavior change technology company Arianna Huffington founded in August 2016; raised $30 million in 2017 at a $120 million valuation.
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Hedge fund Julian Robertson founded in 1980; it wound down in 2000, and many of its analysts, called Tiger Cubs, went on to start their own funds.
6 people · publication
News magazine first published in New York on 3 March 1923 by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden; weekly until 2020, now every other week.
1 person · company
Dating app launched in 2012 by Sean Rad, Justin Mateen, Whitney Wolfe and Jonathan Badeen; owned by Match Group, it had 75 million monthly users in 20
1 person · company
Holding company Andrew Wilkinson and Chris Sparling founded in Victoria, British Columbia in 2006; owns Letterboxd, Dribbble, AeroPress, MetaLab and o
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Indian venture fund for software and AI founders; Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham is a founding partner.
1 person · company
Los Angeles shoe company founded by Blake Mycoskie in 2006; gave a pair of shoes to a child in need for each pair sold, and its creditors took control
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The origin of lean production; most of the literature is management-method writing rather than corporate narrative.
1 person · company
Marketing analytics platform Allen Gannett founded and ran as CEO; its clients included Microsoft, Marriott, Saks Fifth Avenue and Home Depot, and it
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Trader Joe's stocks roughly 4,000 items against 30,000 or more at a conventional supermarket, sells about 80 percent private label, buys direct from m
1 person · company
Online marketplace for reselling women's clothing and accessories, founded in Los Angeles in 2009 by Tracy DiNunzio.
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New York investment counsel firm John Train founded in 1958 as Train, Cabot and Associates; later Train, Smith Counsel and now Train, Babcock Advisors
1 books · Companies
HVAC and industrial equipment; coverage amounts to one commissioned corporate history, with nothing on the modern split.
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Hedge fund Barton Biggs founded in 2003 after leaving Morgan Stanley; he ran it until his death in 2012.
1 person · company
Chicago media company that began with the Chicago Tribune in 1847; Sam Zell took it private in 2007 before it went bankrupt in 2008, and its stations
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Investment firm Paul Tudor Jones founded in November 1980, based in Stamford, Connecticut; runs macro hedge funds and other strategies.
1 person · university
Private research university in New Orleans founded in 1834 as the Medical College of Louisiana; became private with gifts from Paul Tulane in 1884.
1 person · company
London interdealer broker founded by Derek Tullett in 1971; Collins Stewart bought it and added Prebon Yamane in 2004, and it became Tullett Prebon, n
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Investment firm founded in 1920 and now in Stamford, Connecticut; buys stocks on Benjamin Graham's principles and acted as broker to Graham and to the
2 people · company
Video live-streaming service launched in June 2011 as a spin-off of Justin.tv, which Justin Kan co-founded; best known for video game streams, and Ama
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Microblogging platform with two distinct literatures: the founder wars of its first decade and the 2022 Musk takeover.
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Independent typography website created by Jeremiah Shoaf; shows fonts used on real websites and draws more than 350,000 visitors a month.
1 person · government body
Naval infantry branch of the US armed forces, founded in 1775; carries out amphibious and expeditionary operations.
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Ride-hailing company whose regulatory brawls and 2017 governance collapse made it the case study of growth-at-all-costs startup culture.
1 person · university
University of California, San Francisco, a public university for the health and life sciences, founded as Toland Medical College in 1864.
1 person · university
Graduate business school of the University of California, Los Angeles, established in 1935 and named in 1987 for donor John E. Anderson.
1 person · government body
United Nations agency that provides humanitarian and developmental aid to children, operating in 192 countries and territories; runs immunization and
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An Anglo-Dutch consumer group whose literature runs from Lever's soap-and-palm-oil origins through commissioned business history to a recent CEO manif
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New York venture capital firm Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham founded in 2003; has backed more than 130 startups, including Twitter, Etsy, Coinbase and S
1 person · fund manager
Miami fund manager founded by Mark Spitznagel in 2007, with Nassim Nicholas Taleb as scientific adviser; sells tail-risk hedging that pays off in shar
2 people · university
Public research university in Berkeley founded in 1868; the founding campus of the University of California, with more than 45,000 students.
1 person · university
Public research university in Irvine, California, established in 1965 as part of the University of California system.
1 person · university
Private research university in Chicago founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1890; its economics department gave its name to the Chicago school of free-ma
2 people · university
Business school of the University of Chicago, founded in 1898; associated with 10 Nobel laureates in economics, including Eugene Fama and Richard Thal
1 person · university
Land-grant research university in Newark, Delaware, founded in 1743; the largest in Delaware by enrollment, with 24,221 students in fall 2023.
1 person · university
Public research university in Glasgow founded in 1451; Adam Smith studied there and later held its chair of moral philosophy.
1 person · university
Public research university in Houston established in 1927 as Houston Junior College; renamed University of Houston in 1934, it awarded 11,773 degrees
1 person · university
Public research university in Winnipeg founded in 1877, the first in western Canada; Vaclav Smil taught there.
1 person · university
Public research university in Ann Arbor founded in 1817; enrolls more than 54,000 students.
1 person · university
Private Catholic research university in San Diego, chartered in 1949 as San Diego College for Women and San Diego University, which merged in 1972.
1 person · university
Public research university in Austin founded in 1883; flagship of the University of Texas System, with 53,864 students in fall 2024.
1 person · company
Figma UI kit and design system, with a free version, sold alongside a library of React components.
1 person · company
Cybersecurity company founded in 2012 that sells a cyber risk platform for vendor risk, breach risk and workforce AI use; its US headquarters is in Mo
1 person · company
Media company that grew from the Valuetainment YouTube channel Patrick Bet-David launched on November 9, 2012; produces the PBD Podcast, hosts convent
1 person · company
Trading education firm founded by Van Tharp; teaches trading psychology, position sizing and system design through courses and books.
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Condé Nast magazine of popular culture, fashion and current affairs, published 1913 to 1936 and revived in 1983.
1 person · company
El Segundo, California space company Will Bruey and Delian Asparouhov founded in January 2021; builds and flies spacecraft that process pharmaceutical
1 person · company
New York digital advertising agency Gary Vaynerchuk co-founded with his brother AJ in 2009; part of the VaynerX holding company.
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Holding company chaired by Gary Vaynerchuk that owns the VaynerMedia agency and Gallery Media Group, publisher of PureWow and ONE37pm.
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Hiring marketplace Brett Adcock and Adam Goldstein founded in New York City in 2013; it bought the recruitment platform Hired in November 2020 and too
1 person · company
Web store-building software company started in July 1995 by Paul Graham, Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell; Yahoo bought it in 1998 and renamed it Ya
1 person · company
London conglomerate founded by Richard Branson and Nik Powell in 1970; its brands span airlines, rail, banking, telecoms and spaceflight.
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News website founded in April 2014 by Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias and Melissa Bell as part of Vox Media; publishes explanatory journalism, videos and
1 person · company
Media company Jim Bankoff and Trei Brundrett founded in November 2011 around SB Nation and The Verge; its brands include Vox, Polygon and Eater; owned
1 person · fund manager
Asset manager Bill Stewart founded in 1974; it listed on the New York Stock Exchange in December 2000 with about $13 billion under management, and All
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The largest retailer in the world; the literature splits between Sam Walton's operating story and critical work on supplier and labor power.
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Animation studio founded by Walt and Roy Disney on 16 October 1923; the longest-running animation studio, Ed Catmull led it after Disney bought Pixar
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Partnership Walter Schloss started in 1955 and ran with his son Edwin until 2001, buying cheap stocks on Benjamin Graham's principles.
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A studio and conglomerate defined by serial mergers; the AOL deal alone generated several of the best merger post-mortems written.
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Nonprofit magazine on United States politics and government, founded by Charles Peters and based in Washington, D.C.; publishes an annual ranking of A
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The Seattle thrift that became the largest bank failure in US history in September 2008; one book carries the subject.
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Washington, DC daily newspaper founded in 1877; Jeff Bezos bought it in 2013, and it had 2.5 million digital subscribers in 2023.
1 person · company
Robo-adviser founded in 2008 by Andy Rachleff and Dan Carroll; invests clients' money in index-fund portfolios and managed about $95 billion in 2026.
4 people · company
San Francisco company founded by Vlad Magdalin, Sergie Magdalin and Bryant Chou; sells a visual editor for designing, building and hosting websites wi
1 person · publication
Blog network Brian Alvey and Jason Calacanis founded in 2003; ran as many as 90 blogs, including Engadget and Autoblog, and was owned by AOL from 2005
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St. Louis investment adviser where David Rolfe has been chief investment officer since 1992; runs concentrated portfolios of growth companies.
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Early-stage venture fund of Ryan Hoover, founder of Product Hunt; writes cheques of $250k to $500k into startups around the world.
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Omaha value investment firm Wally Weitz founded in 1983; boutique and employee-owned.
1 person · fund manager
Boston investment manager founded in Philadelphia in 1933 by Walter Morgan; manages more than $1 trillion for institutions in more than 60 countries.
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Ten-year non-profit project (2014–2024) founded by Esther Dyson to improve health and wellbeing in five US communities.
1 person · company
Pasadena holding company, once a savings and loan, that Blue Chip Stamps controlled and Charlie Munger chaired; Berkshire Hathaway bought the rest of
1 person · company
Perth conglomerate founded in 1914 as a co-operative for Western Australian farmers; runs retail, chemical, fertiliser and industrial businesses, with
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Adam Neumann's office-sublet company sold as a technology platform, whose 2019 IPO withdrawal wiped out most of a $47bn valuation.
1 person · non-profit
Non-profit biomedical research institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1982; its members hold faculty posts in MIT's biology department.
1 person · publication
Counterculture magazine and product catalogue Stewart Brand created in 1968; listed tools and books for self-sufficiency and was published several tim
1 person · publication
Magazine founded in January 1985 from the merger of CoEvolution Quarterly and the Whole Earth Software Review, descendants of Stewart Brand's Whole Ea
1 person · company
Beverly Hills talent agency formed in 2009 by the merger of the William Morris Agency and Endeavor; represents actors, musicians, writers and sports l
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Los Angeles research firm William O'Neil founded in 1963; built the first computerised daily securities database and sells research to institutional i
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Wine shop in Springfield, New Jersey that Gary Vaynerchuk's father opened in 1983; Gary renamed it Wine Library in 1998, grew its sales past $50 milli
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Laguna Beach investment firm Darrell Winrich founded in 1976; his son Kurt joined in 1984, and as WCM Investment Management it grew to $100B in assets
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The DAX-listed German payments firm that admitted 1.9bn euros did not exist; the serious English-language literature is essentially one book, with mor
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Wired launched in 1993 as a magazine covering digital culture, expanded into a web business that failed to go public, and sold to Condé Nast in 1998.
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New York exchange-traded fund sponsor that launched its first ETFs in June 2006; Jeremy Siegel is senior investment adviser, and it managed $99.5 bill
1 person · fund manager
Investment firm co-founded by Christopher Mayer, author of 100 Baggers, who manages its fund.
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Free, open-source content management system first released in 2003 by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little; used by 22.5% of the top one million websites in
1 person · government body
Group of five international organisations, established in 1944, that lends to and advises developing countries; headquartered in Washington, DC.
1 person · government body
Intergovernmental organization in Geneva established on 1 January 1995 to succeed the GATT; its 166 members negotiate trade agreements and resolve tra
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Bernie Ebbers's roll-up and the $11bn accounting fraud that was the largest US bankruptcy until Lehman; a thinner literature than Enron's.
1 person · company
Premium app, formerly Her Black Book, for shoppers to discover deals and brands; built by twin sisters Julie and Sali Stevanja, who launched Stylerunn
1 person · company
Online writing course whose five-week Bootcamp asks 6–10 hours a week; hundreds of students have taken it, and its community counts 300+ writers.
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Summer camp from David Perell's Write of Passage that encourages kids to create and collaborate and to walk a path of self-directed learning with teac
1 person · non-profit
Non-profit founded by Peter Diamandis in 1994 that runs prize competitions for technology; its Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight was awarded in 2
1 person · company
Google's research lab founded in January 2010 to develop moonshot technologies such as self-driving cars; Astro Teller is its CEO.
1 person · company
Artificial intelligence company Elon Musk founded in March 2023; makes the Grok models, owns the X social network, and became a subsidiary of SpaceX i
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Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, which invented much of modern personal computing and whose parent failed to commercialise it - the canonical innova
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Y Combinator funds startups in twice-yearly batches on standard terms, currently $125,000 for 7 percent plus a further $375,000 on uncapped terms, and
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Web portal that defined the 1990s internet and then lost search, social and mobile in turn; its literature is small and concentrated on the decline.
3 people · university
Private Ivy League university in New Haven, Connecticut, founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School; the fourth-oldest college in the United States.
1 person · company
Enterprise social network David O. Sacks and Adam Pisoni launched in 2008 from a tool built at Geni; Microsoft bought it in 2012 for US$1.2 billion an
1 person · fund manager
Venture fund Caterina Fake and Jyri Engeström announced in January 2018; invests in climate, AI, health and longevity, energy and defence.
1 person · company
Video-sharing platform Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim and Steve Chen founded on February 14, 2005; owned by Google, with more than 2.7 billion monthly activ
1 person · company
Internet promotions company Seth Godin ran as president and CEO; it pioneered permission marketing, and Yahoo bought it in October 1998.
2 people · company
Las Vegas online shoe and clothing retailer founded in 1999 by Nick Swinmurn, with Tony Hsieh as CEO; Amazon bought it in 2009 for about $1.2 billion.
1 person · fund manager
New York private equity firm founded by Strauss Zelnick, its CEO and managing partner; invests in media, entertainment and communications businesses.
1 person · company
New York company founded in 2007 by Cyrus Massoumi, Nick Ganju and Oliver Kharraz; lets patients find and book doctor and dentist appointments online.
1 person · fund manager
Hedge fund manager Martin Zweig and Joseph DiMenna founded in 1984; focused on absolute returns.