10. Amazon
Amazon was originally named Cadabra, but as soon as company founder Jeff Bezos talked to a lawyer about the name, he wondered: `Cadaver (Corpse)?`, the name was immediately changed.
9. Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway was formerly a garment manufacturing company for more than 100 years before becoming a large multi-industry joint stock company.
8. Dell
This computer corporation entered the Fortune 500 list of businesses in 1992, and Dell’s 27-year-old CEO at that time, Michael Dell, became the youngest CEO in history to run a company in the top 500.
7. Facebook
Do you think it’s only now that Facebook faces security issues?
6. Ford
Henry Ford’s first automobile manufacturing project, the Detroit Automobile Company, failed after 2 years of operation.
5. General Electric
This energy corporation’s stock was one of the first twelve stocks included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1986, and still maintains a veteran position on the list.
4. Google
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wrote a research report at Stanford University in 1998, strongly opposing the use of advertising as capital for search engines.
3. IBM
IBM became a corporation in 1911 when three companies merged to form the Tabulating and Storage Computing Company.
2. Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble was born in 1837 after William Proctor, a soapmaker, and James Gamble, a candlemaker, married two sisters and became brothers.
1. Starbucks
Starbucks was originally named Pequod, after the whaling ship in Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick.
Duy Tung (According to Forbes)
