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Technology

25 companies holding 145 books.

AirbnbShort-term rental marketplace whose founding story and city-by-city regulatory conflict are covered by a small but solid literature.4 books
AlibabaChina's dominant e-commerce group; the literature mixes insider accounts with outside histories of Jack Ma's rise.8 books
Alphabet / GoogleSearch and advertising company reorganised as Alphabet in 2015, with a literature split between founding narratives and management texts by its own…10 books
AmazonRetail and cloud-computing company whose operating doctrine and Bezos-era expansion are documented by both journalists and departing executives.7 books
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AOLAOL 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.1 book
AppleConsumer computing and devices company whose founder cult, near-death in the 1990s and record-breaking second act have produced the deepest…12 books
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DellDell sold personal computers directly to customers, built to order, and used negative working capital to fund its growth before going private in…1 book
eBayPierre 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.2 books
IBMCentury-old computing company whose Watson dynasty, near-death in the early 1990s and wartime record are each the subject of major books.9 books
IntelMicroprocessor company whose founders wrote some of the most durable management books in business, alongside a strong outside literature.8 books
Meta / FacebookSocial networking company renamed Meta in 2021, with a literature that turns sharply from founding legend to investigative and whistleblower accounts.7 books
MicrosoftSoftware platform company whose PC-era dominance, antitrust ordeal and cloud-era revival each generated their own shelf of books.9 books
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NeXTSteve Jobs founded NeXT in 1985 after leaving Apple; it sold few workstations, shifted to software, and Apple bought it in 1996 for its operating…1 book
NvidiaGraphics-chip designer that became the central supplier of AI compute; its literature is recent and still thin relative to its size.5 books
OpenAIAI research lab turned product company whose nonprofit-to-capped-profit conversion and 2023 board crisis made it the subject of a fast-growing…8 books
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OracleOracle sold the first commercial SQL relational database in 1979 and built a sales organisation that Larry Ellison drove on quota and commission.5 books
PalantirGovernment and enterprise data-analytics company whose secrecy, defence contracts and ideological founders have only recently drawn book-length…7 books
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RedditReddit runs a user-moderated discussion network, was bought by Condé Nast in 2006, later spun out, and went public in 2024.1 book
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SalesforceSalesforce sold customer relationship software as a subscription service from 1999 and established the software-as-a-service model that most…1 book
SamsungThe chaebol that became the world's largest electronics maker; a small but sharp literature covers the Lee family and the Sony rivalry.7 books
SonyJapanese electronics and entertainment group whose postwar rise, Hollywood purchases and loss of the portable-music franchise anchor its literature.6 books
Twitter / XMicroblogging platform with two distinct literatures: the founder wars of its first decade and the 2022 Musk takeover.8 books
UberRide-hailing company whose regulatory brawls and 2017 governance collapse made it the case study of growth-at-all-costs startup culture.8 books
Xerox PARCXerox's Palo Alto Research Center, which invented much of modern personal computing and whose parent failed to commercialise it - the canonical…11 books
YahooWeb portal that defined the 1990s internet and then lost search, social and mobile in turn; its literature is small and concentrated on the decline.6 books

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