USA = 56% of Most Highly Valued Tech Companies Founded By… st nd 1 or 2 Generation Americans…1.7MM Employees, 2017 Immigrant Founders / Co-Founders of Top 25 USA Valued Public Tech Companies, Ranked by Market Capitalization Mkt Cap LTM Rev Founder / Co-Founder Rank Company ($MM) ($MM) Employees (1st / 2nd Gen Immigrant ) Generation nd 1 Apple $923,554 $239,176 123,000 Steve Jobs 2 –Syria nd 4 Amazon.com 782,608 177,866 566,000 Jeff Bezos 2 –Cuba 3 Microsoft 753,030 95,652 124,000 -- -- st 2 Alphabet / Google 739,122 110,855 80,110 Sergey Brin 1 –Russia st 5 Facebook 537,648 40,653 25,105 Eduardo Saverin 1 –Brazil 6 Intel 257,791 62,761 102,700 --* -- 7 Cisco 202,083 48,096 72,900 -- -- nd Larry Ellison / 2 –Russia / 8 Oracle 188,848 39,472 138,000 nd Bob Miner 2 –Iran 11 Netflix 152,025 11,693 4,850 -- -- st 10 NVIDIA 150,894 9,714 10,299 Jensen Huang 1 –Taiwan nd 9 IBM 129,635 79,139 366,600 Herman Hollerith 2 –Germany 12 Adobe Systems 119,271 7,699 17,973 -- -- 13 Booking.com 100,013 12,681 22,900 -- -- st Cecil Green / 1 –UK / 14 Texas Instruments 108,912 14,961 29,714 nd J. Erik Jonsson 2 –Sweden st Max Levchin / 1 –Ukraine / st Luke Nosek / 1 –Poland / 15 PayPal 95,858 13,094 18,700 st Peter Thiel / 1 –Germany / st Elon Musk*** 1 –South Africa 16 Salesforce.com 94,260 10,480 25,000 -- -- st 17 Qualcomm 86,333 22,360 33,800 Andrew Viterbi 1 –Italy nd 19 Automatic Data Processing 57,237 12,790 58,000 Henry Taub 2 –Poland st 21 VMware 55,282 7,922 20,615 Edouard Bugnion 1 –Switzerland 20 Activision Blizzard 53,772 7,017 9,625 -- -- 18 Applied Materials 52,439 15,463 18,400 -- -- 23 Intuit 50,471 5,434 8,200 -- -- st Francisco D‘Souza / 1 –India** / 22 Cognizant Technology 43,597 14,810 260,000 st Kumar Mahadeva 1 – Sri Lanka st 24 eBay 37,304 9,567 14,100 Pierre Omidyar 1 – France 25 Electronic Arts 34,763 4,845 8,800 -- -- Source: CapIQ as of 4/16/18. “The ‘New American’ Fortune 500” (2011), a report by the Partnership for a New American Economy, as well as “Reason for Reform: Entrepreneurship” (10/16), “American Made, The Impact of Immigrant Founders & Professionals on U.S. Corporations.” *While Andy Grove 290 (from Hungary) is not a co-founder of Intel, he joined as COO on the day it was incorporated. **Francisco D’Souza is a person of Indian origin born in Kenya. ***Max Levchin / Luke Nosek / Peter Thiel’s startup Confinity merged with Elon Musk’s startup X.com to form PayPal in 3/00.