Business
19 dated, sourced timelines.
Theranos
Theranos was a blood-testing company founded by Elizabeth Holmes in 2003 that said its devices could run a wide range of tests on a few drops of blood. It raised more...
Boeing
Boeing began in Seattle in 1916 as Pacific Aero Products and grew into a major maker of commercial jets and a defence and space contractor. Two fatal 737 MAX crashes...
Meta Platforms
Meta began as Facebook, a social network launched by Mark Zuckerberg and classmates in 2004, and went public on Nasdaq in 2012. It bought Instagram and WhatsApp and...
Apple
Apple was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne and went public in 1980. After Jobs returned in 1997 it introduced the iPod, iPhone and iPad...
Silicon Valley Bank
Silicon Valley Bank, founded in 1983 and owned by SVB Financial Group, grew to about $212 billion in assets before it was closed on March 10, 2023, in what a federal...
Tesla
Tesla was formed in Delaware in July 2003, began delivering its Roadster sports car in 2008 and went public on Nasdaq in 2010. It expanded from electric cars into...
Safaricom
Safaricom began as the mobile arm of state-owned Telkom Kenya, was licensed in 1999 and launched commercially in October 2000 with Vodafone as a major shareholder...
EU Digital Markets Act fines
The Digital Markets Act entered into force in November 2022 and the Commission designated its first six gatekeepers in September 2023. After opening non-compliance...
OpenAI
OpenAI was announced in December 2015 as a nonprofit artificial intelligence research lab and later added a capped-profit arm that drew billions of dollars from...
FTX
FTX was a cryptocurrency exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried and Gary Wang that began raising money from investors in 2019 and was based in the Bahamas. It...
OpenAI board ousts Altman
On 17 November 2023 OpenAI's nonprofit board removed Sam Altman as CEO, saying he had not been consistently candid with it. After Microsoft said it would hire him and...
NVIDIA
NVIDIA was founded in 1993 to make 3D graphics chips for games and multimedia and listed on Nasdaq in 1999. Its graphics processors became the main hardware for...
Twitter / X
Twitter launched in 2006 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2013. Elon Musk agreed to buy it for $54.20 a share in April 2022, tried to terminate the deal...
Carillion collapse
Carillion, a UK construction and outsourcing group with about 450 government contracts, issued a profit warning in July 2017 and went into compulsory liquidation on...
Kanye West and Adidas
Kanye West and Adidas developed Yeezy footwear before Adidas ended the partnership in October 2022. This timeline follows the collaboration, West's documented...
Kanye West's Yeezy business
Yeezy developed through footwear collaborations, brand registrations, licensed partnerships and direct retail. Follow the records that separate the name, the product...
Microsoft and Activision merger review
Microsoft agreed in January 2022 to buy Activision Blizzard for 68.7 billion dollars. The UK CMA blocked the deal over cloud gaming in April 2023 and cleared a...
Kanye West and Gap
Kanye West and Gap announced Yeezy Gap in 2020, reported new customers from its early products and expanded into a Balenciaga collaboration. The partnership ended...
Enron collapse and convictions
Enron, a Houston energy trading company, restated years of results in November 2001 and filed for bankruptcy weeks later. A federal jury convicted former chief...