What we know today as Apple Inc. was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in April 1976. 

In 1995, Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University. Larry was considering enrolling, and Serge was given the task of showing him around. 

Daimler's motorcycle was the first recognised internal combustion vehicle to incorporate a practical transmission system.

​​​John W. Nordstrom left Sweden in 1887 when he was just 16 years old for the lure of big city life in New York.

Pixar was first known as The Graphics Group, one third of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm which was launched in 1979.