The company story
Iconic tech, told by its price
Each story reads like a book and prices like a tape: chapters of history, key events on the chart, and a shareable card for every era.
NVIDIA Corporation
XNAS: NVDA · IPO Jan 1999
How a graphics chip company for video games became the most valuable company on earth.
Apple Inc.
XNAS: AAPL · IPO Dec 1980
Ninety days from bankruptcy to the most profitable company in history.
Microsoft Corporation
XNAS: MSFT · IPO Mar 1986
The company that won the desktop, lost the internet, then won the cloud.
Amazon.com, Inc.
XNAS: AMZN · IPO May 1997
The company that convinced the market to fund twenty years of reinvestment.
Alphabet Inc.
XNAS: GOOGL · IPO Aug 2004
The best business model ever invented, defending itself for twenty years.
Meta Platforms, Inc.
XNAS: META · IPO May 2012
The stock that fell 77% and came all the way back.
Tesla, Inc.
XNAS: TSLA · IPO Jun 2010
The stock that trades on belief more than any other on earth.
Netflix, Inc.
XNAS: NFLX · IPO May 2002
The mail-order DVD company that ate television.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
XNAS: AMD · IPO Sep 1972
Fifty years as the second-best chip company, then five years that changed the order.
Intel Corporation
XNAS: INTC · IPO Oct 1971
The company that made Moore’s Law a promise, and then missed a deadline.
International Business Machines Corporation
XNYS: IBM · IPO Nov 1915
A hundred years of reinvention, including one that nearly failed.
Oracle Corporation
XNYS: ORCL · IPO Mar 1986
A database company that kept buying its way into the next era.
Cisco Systems, Inc.
XNAS: CSCO · IPO Feb 1990
It took twenty-six years to get back to the bubble’s high.
Adobe Inc.
XNAS: ADBE · IPO Aug 1986
The company that owns the file formats, priced for the first time as vulnerable.
Salesforce, Inc.
XNYS: CRM · IPO Jun 2004
The company that proved software could be rented.
QUALCOMM Incorporated
XNAS: QCOM · IPO Dec 1991
A royalty on almost every phone ever sold, defended in court for twenty years.
Texas Instruments Incorporated
XNAS: TXN · IPO Oct 1953
It invented the integrated circuit and got rich selling the boring ones.
Broadcom Inc.
XNAS: AVGO · IPO Aug 2009
A private-equity strategy running inside a semiconductor company.
Intuit Inc.
XNAS: INTU · IPO Mar 1993
It survived Microsoft, then had to answer to a chatbot.
ServiceNow, Inc.
XNYS: NOW · IPO Jun 2012
The most valuable software company most people have never used.