You hear a lot of chat about recessions being a great time to start companies. Here is a list of some that were, courtesy of Steve Jurvetson.
- 1870 – Standard Oil (Exxon, Chevron)
- 1873 – GE
- 1923 – Disney
- 1928 – Motorola
- 1939 – HP
- 1940 – McDonalds
- 1975 – Microsoft
- 1976 – Apple
- 1977 – Oracle
- 1980 – CNN
- 1981 – MTV
- 1984 – Dell
- 1984 – Cisco
- 2000 – Baidu
- 2001 – Wikipedia
- 2002 – Skype
There are a couple of good ones there 🙂