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Form Beauty Corporate Office

Form Beauty

After being let go from his job at a Wall Street firm, Tristan Walker decided to take the big leap and change his life completely. He decided to change how people of color, especially African Americans, buy personal care products. He founded Form Beauty in late 2013.

History

In a Bloomberg interview, Tristan said “We make health and beauty simple for people of color. I joke about going to the ethnic shelf in aisle 40 of CVS, reaching to the bottom for a package with a photo of a 70-year-old bald black guy in a towel drinking a cognac while petting a tiger. That’s an experience that should not exist and something that few people in Silicon Valley understand.”

Walker says that while retail must change the way it does business, it’s not dead yet. Retail is in his plan of “what’s next.”

Company headquarters are located in Palo Alto, California.

Ancestry.Com Corporate Office

Ancestry.Com

In 1990, two Brigham Young University students began tracking family tree information and making it available to other LDS members via floppy discs. By 1994, their original company, Infobases, was being sold on CD’s out of their cars. In 1995, these CD’s sold for $300. Ancestry.com took the business online in 1996.

While the company had been offering free access to Ancestry.com at LDS Family History Centers, that service was terminated on March 17, 2007, because the company and the LDS Church were unable to reach a mutually agreeable licensing agreement. In 2010, Ancestry restored access to its site at Family History Centers.

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Today, Ancestry.Com is the largest for-profit genealogy company in the world, with revenue in 2015 of $683.1 million. As of late 2018, the company claims to provide access to approximately 10 billion historical records, have 3 million paying subscribers and to have sold at least 14 million DNA kits.

In 2012, the company was acquired by private equity group Permira Advisors for $1.6 billion.

Clients provide a sample of their DNA to the company for analysis. The company then uses DNA sequences to infer family relationships with other Ancestry DNA users and to provide what it calls an “ethnicity estimate”. Some people experience unexpected surprises, such as author Dani Shapiro, who found that the man she believed was her father actually wasn’t, and a Wisconsin man who discovered that he had 5 siblings, whom his mother had given up for adoption, he was unaware of.

In 2015, Ancestry partnered with Calico, which is a subsidiary of Google, to focus on longevity research and therapeutics, in an effort to investigate if there is human heredity to lifespan.

Headquarters for Ancestry.Com is located in Lehi, Utah.

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Spin Scooters Corporate Office

Spin Scooters

Founded in 2016 by Derrick Ko, Euwyn Poon, and Zaizhuang Cheng, Spin began by renting dockless bicycles in the Seattle, Washington, area. The company logged more than 5,000 rides in their first week, far exceeding other bike rental companies. The company has evolved to include electric scooters.

Spin began offering scooter rentals/sharing in San Francisco, California, in early 2018 and in Texas in March 2017.

History

San Francisco Public Works confiscated dozens of the dockless bicycles after pedestrians stated that the bikes were blocking sidewalks and creating a hazard.

Ford Motor Company acquired the company in November of 2018 for an undisclosed sum. The company was worth approximately $90 billion at the time of sale. Ford says that they intend to greatly expand the company, which currently operates in 24 cities across the US.

In July 2021, the city of Seattle, Washington, gave Spin a permit to operate their scooters on city streets.

Headquarters for Spin are currently located in San Francisco, California. It is unknown if Ford will move or integrate the corporate office for Spin with their office in Detroit, Michigan.

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Roman Corporate Office

Roman

Roman was founded in 2017 by Zachariah Reitano, Saman Rahmanian, and Rob Schutz after Reitano ‘s ED issues could not be easily addressed without several doctor’s visits.

Roman is an online telemedicine and supplement company that works as a subscription service. The company diagnoses health problems, prescribes and mails medication to their clients. Starting with only ED products, the company has expanded to hair loss, genital herpes, and cold sore treatments.

History

Reitano says that he never really intended to start a company that dealt with just ED problems, but men’s health problems in general.

The company recently began offering a smoking cessation program aimed at men, which will be sold under the name “Zero.”

Company headquarters for Roman are located in New York, New York.

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Huawei Corporate Office

Huawei

Huawei, which roughly translated means “a splendid act”, was founded by Ren Zhengfei, a former deputy director of the People’s Liberation Army, in 1987 in Shenzhen, China. Rather than rely on joint ventures to secure technology transfers from foreign companies, which were often reluctant to transfer their most advanced technologies to Chinese firms, Ren looked to reverse engineer foreign technologies with local researchers. At a time when all of China’s telecommunications technology was imported, Ren hoped to build a domestic Chinese telecommunication company that could compete with, and perhaps one day even replace, foreign competitors.

Huawei is multinational telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics manufacturer. The company offers its products and services in more than 170 countries, and it serves at least 45 of the 50 largest telecom operators. Huawei has over 1,500 networks, reaching one-third of the world’s population. Huawei overtook Ericcson in 2012 as the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world and in 2018, overtook tech giant Apple as the second-largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world, just behind Samsung.

History

In December 2018, Huawei reported that its annual revenue had risen to $108.5 billion in 2018 (a 21% increase over 2017), surpassing $100 billion for the first time in company history.

Officials and politicians within the U.S. federal government have raised concerns that Huawei-made telecommunications equipment may be designed to allow unauthorised access by the Chinese government and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army since founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei, served as an engineer in the army in the early 1980s. In a 2011 open letter, Huawei stated that the security concerns are “unfounded and unproven” and called on the U.S. government to investigate any aspect of its business.

Several major U.S. wireless carriers, as well as consumer electronics giant Best Buy, began to drop Huawei’s products in early-2018, prompting Huawei to pull out of the market entirely. The company has argued that its products posed “no greater cybersecurity risk” than those of any other vendor and that there is no evidence of the U.S. spying claim.

Huawei classifies itself as a “collective” and does not refer to itself as a private company. The U.S. headquarters for Huawei are located in Plano, Texas.

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