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Some Quakers founded banks and financial institutions, including Barclays, Lloyds, and Friends Provident; manufacturers including the footwear firm of C. & J. Clark and the big three British confectionery makers Cadbury, Rowntree and Fry; and philanthropic efforts, including abolition of slavery, prison reform, and social justice. [26]
BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment company.Founded in 1988, initially as an enterprise risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager, with US$10 trillion in assets under management as of December 31, 2023. [1]
Jerry Yang and David Filo, the founders of Yahoo The Yahoo home page in 1994, when it was a directory, a search engine was added in 1995. In January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University, when they created a website named "Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web".
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) [11] [12] is a private research university in Stanford, California.It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford, the eighth governor of and then-incumbent senator from California, and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr. [2]
In January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were Electrical Engineering graduate students, created a website called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web".The Guide was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages.
The company was founded in 1876 by Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical chemist and Union Army veteran of the American Civil War for whom the company was later named. [ 6 ] As of 2024, the company is ranked 127th on the Fortune 500 with revenue of $34.12 billion. [ 7 ]
Leon David Black (born July 31, 1951) [1] is an American private equity investor. He is the former CEO of Apollo Global Management, which he co-founded in 1990 with Marc Rowan and Josh Harris. [2] Black was the chairman of the Museum of Modern Art from 2018 to 2021. [3] [4] [5]
In 2012 and 2013, Davis Polk was named America's Law Firm of the Year by the International Financial Law Review. [20] The firm placed 15th on The American Lawyer's 2021 AmLaw 200 ranking, [1] and, on the 2021 Global 200 survey, Davis Polk ranked as the 20th highest grossing law firm in the world. [1]