Looking at high revenue western internet companies founded around 2000 -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Internet_companies https://en.wikipedia.

Looking at high revenue western internet companies founded around 2000 -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Internet_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Internet_compa... Google: 1998, Salesforce 1999, Overstock 1999,, Bet365 2000, Grubhub 2001, Etsy 2002, Logmein 2003, Shopify 2004 Nothing around 1990. Amazon, Ebay, Expedia etc in the mid 90s sure. 1998 and 1999 did better than 2000, but from 1990-1995 there are 9 on the list, from 2000-2005 there are 19 on the list, from 2010-2015 there are 14. Starting in 2000 put you in a great position to capitalise on the real growth of the internet when mobile devices came on.