13 Companies in Social Media

Regularly lauded as a best place to work, LinkedIn is the world’s largest social network for job-hunters, professionals, and businesses. Founded in 2003 by Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn has been a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2016 and has more than...

Meta, formerly Facebook, is one of the largest tech companies in the world, and the reigning monarch of social media. What started in a Harvard dorm room became the social media powerhouse of a generation. On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg,...

YouTube wasn’t always the home it is now for viral videos, music videos, and “let’s play” content. Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawad Karim started working on the idea behind YouTube in 2004. Originally, they thought the site should be a dating...

Instagram was founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. The Stanford graduates joined forces when Systrom wanted to continue building his app Burbn. Investors encouraged him to find a cofounder, so Systrom began to run through his list of tech...

In its brief history, TikTok has become a cultural phenomenon like no other. The app known today as TikTok was born out of two distinct apps. Musical.ly was launched in 2014 in Shanghai and had a large American market. The app allowed users to...

In the constantly morphing digital age, it is critical for companies to be able to engage with their customers, speak to them and communicate through digestible, accessible platforms. That’s where Hootsuite comes in. Hootsuite strengthens...

Snap Inc. is home to one of the most unique and highly used social media apps in the world, Snapchat. Snapchat was created by three Stanford students in 2011. Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown, and Bobby Murphy all had an idea for a social media site...

Sprinklr is a marketing company that offers a large suite of services and products that use enterprise software to streamline and connect a company’s marketing efforts, making them more efficient, unified, and effective. The firm successfully...

Twitter is much more than a social media company. It’s a culture creator, a celebrity maker, even a virtual news source. Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone started designing Twitter using Ruby on Rails in 2006. Originally a side project...