<Top ten fastest listed companies to reach $1 billion in sales revenue:
1. Apple Computer Inc. ? 5 years
2. Sun MicroSystems ? 6 years
3. BEA Systems ? 6 years
4. Primus Communications ? 6 years
5. Nvidia ? 7 years
6. Ebay ? 7 years
7. Siebel Systems ? 7 years
8. Excel Communications ? 8 years
9. FedEx Corporation ? 9 years
10. Cisco Systems ? 10 years
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References:
1.
Apple Computer Inc.
5 years.
The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Incorporated January 3, 1977
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=107357&p=irol-faq#corpinfo1
December 1982: Apple Computer reaches $1 billion in annual sales.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/1996/02/05/BU45795.DTL&type=tech_article
Apple reaches sales of $1 billion
http://www.icwhen.com/book/the_1980s/1982.shtml
Apple becomes the first personal computer company to reach $1 billion sales.
http://www.macmothership.com/timeline.html
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2.
Sun MicroSystems
Founded 1982
According to the company?s website, they reached $1 billion in revenue by 1988.
Time to reach the $1 billion mark: 6 years
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/coinfo/history.html
http://66.102.11.104/search?q=cache:ajh17OdPL6MJ:www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~ece427/cur/hos/solaris-intro.pdf++%22apple+computer%22+%22reaches+%241+billion%22+revenue&hl=en
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3.
BEA Systems
Time to reach $1 billion - 6 years
Founded in 1995. Reached sales of $1 billion in 2001.
References:
Feature on ZD Net from the Wall Street Journal Online, October 31, 2001.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-530995.html
BEA website
http://www.bea.com/framework.jsp?CNT=homepage_main.jsp&FP=/content
About BEA
BEA achieved $1 billion revenue faster than any other software company.
http://www.bea.com/framework.jsp?CNT=corporate.htm&FP=/content/about/corporate
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4.
Primus Communications
http://www.primustel.com/index.html
Reached $1 billion in 6 years
Established 1994
An article on The Motley Fool site ?Stocks Fools Love? by Bill Mann,
February 8, 2000, reports that Primus sales surpassed $1 billion.
http://www.fool.com/specials/2000/sp000208sfl2.htm?source=EDSP
Primus reports that their sales were over the $1 billion mark for the
first time in 2000.
http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=PRTL&script=410&layout=9&item_id=151319
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5.
Nvidia
http://www.nvidia.com/page/companyinfo.html
Nasdaq: NVDA
According to The Pratt Press, November 2003, Nvidia reached $1
billion, 7 years after foundation.
http://www.pratt.duke.edu/Newsletter/Issue20/story97.html
According to Looksmart, Nvidia beats Broadcom and Cirrus Logic
records for becoming the fastest company to reach $1 billion revenues.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EKF/is_49_48/ai_94982464
Nvidia was founded in 1993.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/1993_timeline.html
Nvidia saw only victories in 2001.
Nvidia was the fastest semiconductor company to reach $1 billion in revenues.
http://www.infosatellite.com/news/2002/01/a020102nvidia_top.html
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6.
Ebay founded 1995
7 years to reach $1 billion in sales.
According to a report on SiliconValley.com by Mary Anne Ostrom,
?Holidays boost ebay ?02 profit over $1 billion?, ebay sales hit $1
billion in 2002, 7 years after the company was founded.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4966488.htm
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7.
Siebel Systems
7 years to reach $1 billion.
Business Week Online has a feature about Thomas M. Siebel which states
that Siebel Systems Inc. passed the $1 billion mark in just 7 years.
http://www.businessweek.com/2001/01_02/b3714005.htm
According to the Siebel website the company was founded in 1993.
http://www.siebel.com/about/investor_information/financial_overview.shtm#6
Software Success by Dan Carr on the Collaborative site.
Siebel reaches $1 billion sales in 7 years.
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:9dHKeuHx5FQJ:www.collaborative.net/articles/venturing_apr2002.cfm+%22reaching+%241+billion+in%22+fastest&hl=en&start=23
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8.
Excel Communications
Founded in 1988. Traded on the New York Stock Exchange: ECI
According to the company website, Excel hit $1 billion in revenues within 8 years.
http://w3.excel.com/us/AboutUs/Excel_History.asp
Excel ? Vartec in the News.
Inc. 500 - Excel takes 7 ½ years to hit $1 billion.
http://www.bobcatstudios.com/ExcelCredibility.html
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9.
FedEx Corporation
Traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
http://www.fedex.com/
According to the FedEx site the company reached $1 billion revenue in
it?s ninth year of existence.
http://www.fedex.com/us/about/today/history/timeline.html
According to the Motley Fool, Fedex was established in 1973 and
reached annual sales of $1 billion in 1983.
http://www.fool.com/news/foth/2000/foth001204.htm
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10.
Cisco Systems
10 years.
Founded 1984.
According to the Cisco website, in 1994 Cisco surpassed the $1 billion
revenue mark.
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/corporate_timeline.pdf>
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