Every two months there are billions of companies on the rise

The original author of this article, Min Ming, a graduate of Stanford University who is also a Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction, has interned at Google headquarters, Google China (Beijing) and Microsoft. This article comes from his blog, the full text literal translation are as follows:

One of Silicon Valley's leading angel investors and one of Google's earliest investors, Ron Conway once said: "In the past, an average of a billion companies were created every three months on average, but time has now been reduced To two months. "I finally got an opportunity to sort out these" $ 1 billion "companies and I tried my best to make sure that these companies are all software technology companies, and at the same time I also introduced some 1 billion market capitalization companies Including 700 million US dollars and above companies).

I should stress once again that most of these companies are software companies in the United States. Of course, if some Chinese enterprises are added, the list will become longer.

Every year there will be $ 4 billion worth of software companies, but in 2000 - 2002 is a "famine year", of course, is also a cause, during which the US Internet bubble burst, many Internet companies have been affected, which One situation improved only by the end of 2013 (Skype), the golden age of Internet business reinvigorated in 2004 (Facebook, Palantir, Yelp, Evernote)

Take a look at the development of Internet companies, we will find that three months enough to create a market value of 1 billion companies. This also means that from 2011 to 2012, there will be 8 companies will be the new big business, maybe they are very young now, but as time goes by, they will show their own value, I also A few promising start-ups between 2009 and 2010.

Google Docs is constantly updated, and thanks to phreeza (HN).

Company Start Date Market Capital / Price * / Acquisition Price ^ Billions SolarWinds 1998 3.9 B NetSuite 1998 4.3 B VMware 1998 37 B OpenTable 1998 Jul 1 B Google 1998 Sep 210 B Rackspace 1998 Oct 8 B PayPal 1998 Dec 1.5 B ^ Zappos 1999 1.2 B ^ SurveyMonkey 1999 1 B * Opsware 1999 1.6 B ^ SalesForce 1999 Mar 19 B Shutterfly 1999 Dec 0.9 B Netezza 2000 1.7 B ^ ArcSight 2000 1.5 B ^ ExactTarget 2000 1.3 B BillMeLater 2000 0.9 B ^ Pandora 2000 Jan 1.3 B TripAdvisor 2000 Feb 4.8 B SuccessFactors 2001 3.4 B ^ Guidewire 2001 1.5 B DealerTrack 2001 1.1 B Jive 2001 Feb 0.8 B Kiva Systems 2000 0.8 B ^ LinkedIn 2002 Dec 10 B ServiceNow 2003 3.7 B Skype 2003 Aug 8.5 B ^ Glam Media 2003 Sep 0.7 B * Palantir 2004 2.5 B * Splunk 2004 2.6 B Kayak 2004 Jan 1.8 B Facebook 2004 Feb 41 B Evernote 2004 Sep 1 B * Yelp 2004 Oct 1.1 B Palo Alto Networks 2005 3.5 B Box 2005 1.2 B * Zillow 2005 0.7 B Bebo 2005 Jan 0.85 B ^ HomeAway 2005 Feb 2 B * YouTube 2005 Feb 1.1 B ^ Workday 2005 Mar 7.7 B Millennial Media 2006 1.2 B Twitter 2006 Mar 8 B * Demand Media 2006 May 0.7 B Nicira 2007 1.2 B Gilt Groupe 2007 1 B * Tumblr 2007 Feb 0.8 B * Hulu 2007 Mar 2 B * Dropbox 2007 Jun 4 B * LivingSocial 2007 Jul 2.9 B * Zynga 2007 Jul 1.6 B Github 2008 Feb 0.8 B * AirBnb 2008 Aug 2.5 B * Yammer 2008 Sep 1.2 B ^ Groupon 2008 Nov 1.8 B Pinterest 2008/09 1 B * Square 2009 Feb 3.2 B * Storm8 2009 Mar 1 B * Quora 2009 Jun ~ GetAround 2009 Sep ~ Fab 2010 Feb 0.7 B * Instagram 2010 Mar 1 B ^ Stripe 2010 Jun ~ Skillshare 2010 Nov ~

Remark: * The stock price is the latest data from Wall Street ^ The purchase price refers to the value of the last acquisition (just as Skype was acquired several times)

There are also some start-ups here, all of whom have a great chance of becoming a billion-plus company. Of course, it is hard to list all the accurate data and follow up will be updated.

postscript:

I found some information on Sina science and technology to collect the Chinese Internet companies listed in the United States, their market value and founding time in the table below:

Company Name Founding Time Market Capitalization (Billions of US Dollars) Tencent November 1998 64.5 B Baidu 1999 36.5 B NetEase 1997 6.9 B Sina 1998 3.6 B Youku Potato 2012