The chip company that spent 11 years climbing out of irrelevance — and is now in the AI race with Nvidia.

Updated May 6, 2026 · ~20 min read

A value-based care platform that *deliberately shrunk* its membership to fix unit economics — and just hit positive Adjusted EBITDA.

Updated May 6, 2026 · ~16 min read

Google's parent — Search and YouTube ads, plus a fast-growing cloud business.

Updated Apr 29, 2026 · ~18 min read

The everything store — but its profit comes from renting out the cloud.

Updated Apr 29, 2026 · ~18 min read

Makes the iPhone — and, increasingly, the services that run on it.

Updated May 1, 2026 · ~18 min read

It makes the optical 'plumbing' that wires AI data centers together — riding the buildout, if it can hold its handful of giant customers.

Updated May 7, 2026 · ~13 min read

Building satellites that beam broadband straight to ordinary phones — no tower needed.

Updated May 11, 2026 · ~17 min read

A crypto-and-stablecoin infrastructure company pivoting toward the AI-driven 'agentic payments' era.

Updated May 11, 2026 · ~16 min read

A pre-commercial biotech betting an entire platform — *base editing* — on getting one drug across the FDA finish line.

Updated May 7, 2026 · ~16 min read

The other AI-chip giant — custom silicon, networking, and the software running data centers.

Updated Mar 4, 2026 · ~18 min read

The ASIC-mining-rig pioneer that's now *both selling the picks and digging the gold* — Bitcoin miners by trade, energy-integrated compute by ambition.

Updated May 14, 2026 · ~18 min read

The middleman that helps businesses, schools, and governments buy and set up their technology.

Updated Feb 20, 2026 · ~11 min read

Built the biggest computer chip ever — to compete with Nvidia on AI speed. *Just IPO'd.* Most of last year's revenue came from one UAE customer.

Updated May 14, 2026 · ~20 min read

Gaming keyboards, mice, headsets, and the components inside high-end gaming PCs.

Updated May 7, 2026 · ~17 min read

The data and marketplaces behind commercial real estate — CoStar, LoopNet, Apartments.com, and Homes.com.

Updated Feb 26, 2026 · ~11 min read

They sell groceries and bulk goods to 130 million members. The profit is in the membership fee.

Updated Mar 11, 2026 · ~13 min read

South Korea's dominant online retailer — the 'Amazon of Korea,' famous for dawn-to-doorstep Rocket Delivery.

Updated May 5, 2026 · ~17 min read

The PC maker that became one of the biggest sellers of AI servers.

Updated Feb 26, 2026 · ~18 min read

The regulated electric and gas utility that powers and heats most of southeast Michigan — a steady, dividend-paying monopoly investing billions to modernize its grid.

Updated Feb 12, 2026 · ~16 min read

America's oldest aerospace company — founded 1849 — finally turning a margin-expansion plan into actual profit.

Updated May 12, 2026 · ~17 min read

A Geely-affiliated automotive *intelligence* company building the brain of software-defined vehicles — finally near breakeven, while diversifying away from China.

Updated May 19, 2026 · ~16 min read

The drugmaker behind the blockbuster GLP-1 shots Mounjaro and Zepbound.

Updated Apr 30, 2026 · ~17 min read

The maker of the MRI, CT, and ultrasound machines in hospitals worldwide — spun out of GE in 2023.

Updated Feb 4, 2026 · ~12 min read

A 'program cells like software' synthetic-biology platform — sitting on cash, cutting costs, and still searching for a business model that works.

Updated May 7, 2026 · ~12 min read

One blood test that screens for dozens of cancers before symptoms — a moonshot betting on FDA approval and insurance to unlock a vast market.

Updated May 7, 2026 · ~12 min read

The enterprise-hardware company selling the AI servers and networking gear that power data centers — and it just made a $14 billion bet on networking by buying Juniper.

Updated Dec 11, 2025 · ~15 min read

A bitcoin miner that became a power-and-data-center company — now leasing to AI hyperscalers.

Updated May 6, 2026 · ~17 min read

The 110-year-old tech giant that shrank for a decade, spun off its slow business, and reinvented itself around hybrid cloud and AI — while paying one of the market's most dependable dividends.

Updated Feb 24, 2026 · ~16 min read

A rare-lung-disease biotech turning its first approved drugs into a fast-growing — and still cash-burning — business.

Updated May 7, 2026 · ~13 min read

The 57-year-old chip giant betting its future on a new manufacturing business — with the US government as part-owner.

Updated Apr 30, 2026 · ~21 min read

The hidden ingredient maker — the flavors, scents, and food ingredients designed into products you use every day, from soda to detergent.

Updated Feb 27, 2026 · ~15 min read

Houston space company building lunar landers, satellites, and the data networks the next moon era will run on.

Updated May 15, 2026 · ~19 min read

The first commercial *TIL therapy* company — selling a one-time cancer treatment while racing to expand into more tumor types.

Updated May 7, 2026 · ~18 min read

A bitcoin miner morphing into an AI cloud — renting GPU capacity to hyperscalers.

Updated May 26, 2026 · ~18 min read

The company behind Heinz ketchup, Kraft Mac & Cheese, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia, and Kool-Aid.

Updated Feb 12, 2026 · ~14 min read

The Saudi-backed maker of the longest-range luxury EVs — burning billions to take on Tesla.

Updated May 5, 2026 · ~14 min read

Maker of the first-ever approved drug for MASH, a liver disease affecting millions — racing to scale before competition arrives.

Updated May 6, 2026 · ~13 min read

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — one of the most profitable ad machines ever built.

Updated Apr 29, 2026 · ~18 min read

They make the memory chips inside the AI servers everyone's racing to buy.

Updated Mar 19, 2026 · ~17 min read

Runs the software most companies work on — and, increasingly, the cloud and AI behind it.

Updated Apr 29, 2026 · ~18 min read

The mRNA pioneer after the COVID boom — spending its war chest to turn a vaccine platform into the next generation of medicines.

Updated May 1, 2026 · ~13 min read

The company behind the stock-market indexes and risk tools that trillions of investment dollars track.

Updated Feb 6, 2026 · ~12 min read

They make the shoes you already wear.

Updated Apr 1, 2026 · ~16 min read

The 160-year-old Finnish company that used to make phones — and now powers the optical networks the AI buildout runs on.

Updated Mar 5, 2026 · ~21 min read

The cruise company behind Norwegian, Oceania, and the luxury Regent Seven Seas lines.

Updated Mar 2, 2026 · ~13 min read

An oncology-device company using *electric fields* to fight cancer — finally close to breakeven, with three Phase 3 readouts ahead.

Updated Apr 30, 2026 · ~16 min read

They make the chips behind almost every AI you've heard of.

Updated May 20, 2026 · ~15 min read

The Swiss running-shoe brand 'On' with the cloud-like soles — backed by Roger Federer, and growing fast.

Updated May 12, 2026 · ~17 min read

The database giant that quietly became one of the biggest winners of the AI boom — by renting out the cloud computing power that AI companies are desperate for.

Updated Jun 20, 2025 · ~15 min read

It makes the lidar 'eyes' that let robots, cars, and machines see the world in 3D — riding the autonomy wave across many markets.

Updated May 5, 2026 · ~13 min read

Software that helps governments and big companies make sense of their data — secretive, controversial, and suddenly very profitable.

Updated Feb 17, 2026 · ~18 min read

They help brands sell on Amazon, Walmart, TikTok Shop, and ~150 other marketplaces — and take a cut of every sale.

Updated May 7, 2026 · ~18 min read

A hydrogen-economy pioneer trying to turn 25 years of losses into positive cash flow before its capital does.

Updated May 11, 2026 · ~18 min read

The largest distributor of swimming-pool supplies and equipment in the world.

Updated Feb 26, 2026 · ~11 min read

The company behind Tide, Pampers, Gillette, and Crest — the everyday stuff in your bathroom and laundry room.

Updated Apr 24, 2026 · ~18 min read

The self-described "front page of the internet" — thousands of community forums — that just turned its massive audience into its first real profit.

Updated Feb 6, 2026 · ~16 min read

The unglamorous infrastructure of space — solar arrays, structures, sensors — now bolted to a fast-growing defense-drone business.

Updated May 7, 2026 · ~13 min read

The blue garbage and recycling trucks — one of the largest waste companies in North America.

Updated Feb 18, 2026 · ~11 min read

A Bitcoin miner repurposing its gigawatts of cheap power into data centers for the AI boom.

Updated Apr 30, 2026 · ~16 min read

The app that made stock trading free, tap-to-buy, and — for better or worse — fun. They make money on the trades you don't pay for.

Updated Feb 18, 2026 · ~19 min read

They launch other companies' satellites — and increasingly, build the satellites too.

Updated May 7, 2026 · ~14 min read

The flash-memory company that just spun off from Western Digital — and walked straight into the AI storage boom.

Updated Apr 30, 2026 · ~18 min read

The world's largest maker of hard-drive storage — the kind AI data centers buy by the exabyte.

Updated Apr 29, 2026 · ~18 min read

The software that runs the boring-but-critical workflows inside big companies — IT tickets, HR requests, approvals — and almost never gets cancelled once it's in.

Updated Jan 29, 2026 · ~15 min read

The Korean memory-chip maker whose HBM stacks have become the scarce fuel of the AI boom — and that just had the biggest quarter in its history.

Updated Apr 22, 2026 · ~22 min read

The rocket company is now mostly an internet company — and it just filed to go public.

Updated May 20, 2026 · ~18 min read

A fast-growing AI-server maker with thin margins and a history of accounting scrutiny.

Updated May 5, 2026 · ~17 min read

The electric-car maker betting its future on robotaxis and humanoid robots.

Updated Apr 22, 2026 · ~18 min read

The owner of UFC and WWE — the company behind the fights and the wrestling you watch.

Updated Feb 25, 2026 · ~12 min read

The maker of Dove, Hellmann's, Knorr, and Rexona — and, until 2025, the world's biggest ice cream business.

Updated Mar 12, 2026 · ~17 min read

The space-tourism company building rocket-powered planes to fly paying passengers to the edge of space — burning cash fast while it races to relaunch flights in 2026.

Updated Mar 30, 2026 · ~16 min read

They move $14 trillion a year between buyers and sellers — and skim a tiny fraction off the top.

Updated Apr 29, 2026 · ~19 min read