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28 companies
Nintendo
Gaming & Entertainment
Nintendo is 135 years old. The company started making playing cards in 1889, pivoted to toys in the 1970s, and has survived every gaming industry cycl...
Netflix
Entertainment / Streaming
Netflix has died and been reborn three times - DVD rental (1997-2007), streaming service (2007-2013), global content studio (2013-present). Most compa...
Nokia
Mobile Phones / Telecommunications
Nokia understood the iPhone's significance immediately in 2007 - and collapsed anyway. That's the lesson. The company held 40.4% global market share,...
Novo Nordisk
Pharmaceuticals
Novo Nordisk did one thing for 100 years: diabetes. Not cancer, not cardiovascular, not general pharma. Just metabolic disease. In the 1960s-1970s, as...
Nissan
Automotive
Japanese automaker that was near bankruptcy in 1999 with $20B in debt and -3.5% operating margins before forming an alliance with Renault. Rather than...
Nikon
Photography & Imaging
Nikon is mentioned alongside Sony and Canon as competitors that captured the digital photography market while Kodak failed to act. Nikon's ability to...
Northvolt
Battery Manufacturing / Clean Energy
Swedish battery developer that became the largest bankruptcy in modern Swedish industrial history. Founded in 2015 by two former Tesla executives, Nor...
NTT
Telecommunications
Japan's NTT, founded in 1952 as a state-owned monopoly, built the world's most reliable telecommunications network by treating acoustic communication...
Nvidia Corporation
Semiconductors / AI Hardware
NVIDIA functions as the rate-limiting enzyme of AI development. At $4.63 trillion market cap (December 2025), the company's GPUs process every major A...
Naspers
Technology & Media
Naspers is a global consumer internet group and one of the largest technology investors in the world, best known for its early investment in Chinese t...
National Grid
Utilities
National Grid is an electricity and gas utility company that operates transmission networks in the UK and northeastern United States, playing a critic...
National Indemnity
Insurance
Insurance company acquired by Berkshire Hathaway in 1967 for $8.6 million. Founded by Jack Ringwalt, the company had generated $19 million in float wh...
National Semiconductor
Semiconductors
Semiconductor company that emerged from Fairchild's spinout wave, founded by Pierre Lamond. Part of the monocarpic flowering event that seeded Silicon...
Natura & Co
Consumer Goods
Natura &Co Holding S.A. is a global beauty group owning Natura, The Body Shop, and Avon, known for its commitment to sustainability and direct-selling...
NatWest
Banking
NatWest Group is a major UK retail and commercial bank providing banking and financial services through brands including NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotla...
Naver Corporation
Internet & Technology
Naver is South Korea's dominant internet portal and search engine, operating diverse online platforms including e-commerce, fintech, and cloud service...
Naver Corporation
Internet & Technology
Naver is South Korea's dominant search engine and internet platform, often called the 'Google of Korea.' The company operates diverse services includi...
Nestlé
Food & Beverage
Nestlé is the Swiss multinational food and beverage company ranking as the world's largest food company with revenues of CHF 91.4 billion (2024), a po...
NetEase
Technology
NetEase is one of China's leading internet and gaming companies, known for developing popular online games and mobile titles, with partnerships with m...
Newman's Own
Food & Beverage
Food company founded by Paul Newman in 1982 that operated polycarpically for 26 years, donating 100% of profits ($550M+) to charity. However, after Ne...
Next
Retail
Next is a leading UK clothing, footwear, and home products retailer. The company operates stores and a highly successful online and catalogue business...
NextEra Energy
Utilities & Renewable Energy
NextEra demonstrates first-mover advantage in renewable energy through massive wind and solar deployment. Economies of scale in clean energy productio...
Nike
Apparel & Footwear
Nike demonstrates network effects through brand recognition and athlete endorsements that reinforce market position. Platform economics via direct-to-...
Nikola
Automotive
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicle company representing pure-play bet on hydrogen technology. Faces existential risk if hydrogen doesn't become dominant power...
NIO Inc.
Electric Vehicles
NIO is a leading Chinese premium electric vehicle manufacturer, producing smart EVs with advanced battery swap technology and autonomous driving capab...
Nord Pool
Energy Markets
Europe's largest electricity market, operating the integrated Nordic energy grid connecting Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark. Nord Pool functions...
Northvolt
Energy Storage
Swedish battery manufacturer building European battery production capacity for electric vehicles. Partnerships with major automakers including VW and...
Notion Labs
Software/Productivity
Notion functions as modular organism—every piece of content is a block that can be rearranged, nested, and connected. Like coral polyps or fungal hyph...