I spent way too long trapped in an internal debate of which was the more famous Seattle company: Starbucks or Microsoft. I settled on the caveat that while Mic

I spent way too long trapped in an internal debate of which was the more famous Seattle company: Starbucks or Microsoft. I settled on the caveat that while Microsoft had undoubtedly affected more people and had a greater impact on the world, their corporate brand really doesn't approach the ubiquity of Starbucks'. (Some of my teachers in high school thought Windows was its own company, which I suspect to be a relatively common misconception.)