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It's missing so many companies it's hard to know where to begin. The list probably represents only a fraction of billion dollar software companies founded over
by ig1 14y ago
It's missing so many companies it's hard to know where to begin. The list probably represents only a fraction of billion dollar software companies founded over the last decade. It's heavily skewed towards both American and b2c companies.
Missing ones include: Vancl, Youku, Renren, Wonga, Bazaarvoice, Conduit, Klarna, nicira, Homeaway, Workday, Changyou, ServiceNow, Splunk, Ocado, Giant, Guidewire, DealerTrack, SuccessFactors, SourceFire, ArcSight, Popcap, Yandex, Betfair, ZipCar, Baidu, ExactTarget, etc.
- lominming 14y agoGreat list. I added a bunch of them. I should clarify that in the context of the quote, he was mostly talking about mostly software tech companies founded (or for the most part operated) in US. Hence, I did not include the China and Russia companies. I also classify ZipCar as not really a software tech company.
- yannski 14y agoWell, then why do you count Vente Privée or Rovio ? ;-)
- jon-wood 14y agoI think its a common mistake to write off companies which have a physical aspect as "not software companies". The company I work for delivers food to people, but we're very much a software company in that we couldn't possibly compete with the huge players in this market without smart software which lets us run it with the minimum of people. I'm fairly sure ZipCar are the same - there are many car hire organisations, but not that many which can get by without having to rent premises and huge numbers of people to look after car keys and signing in and out.
- phreeza 14y agoHere is a public spreadsheet to work on. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnrABZ3E0SpidDFMUm1ocFF1ZHBUcHViTk9mQW51c1E&pli=1 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnrABZ3E0SpidDF...
- lominming 14y agoThanks for the doc!
- martincmartin 14y agoITA Software was acquired by Google for $700M. Endeca was acquired by Oracle for $1B. And what about VMWare?
- fraserharris 14y agoI think you missed the "in the U.S."
- ig1 14y agoThat was added after my comment.