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15 companies
Visa Inc.
Payment Networks / Financial Services
Visa isn't the biggest company in global commerce - it's the mechanism that makes global commerce work. Processing $14 trillion annually across 200+ b...
Volkswagen
Automotive
Volkswagen's Dieselgate scandal - 11 million vehicles with emissions-cheating software, $33 billion in fines - wasn't a technical failure. It was the...
Vale
Mining
Vale is a Brazilian multinational mining corporation and joint venture partner with BHP in the Samarco iron ore mine in Brazil. The company is mention...
Veolia Environnement
Environmental Services
Veolia Environnement is a French multinational operating water, waste, and energy services globally. With revenues of €44.7 billion (2024), the compan...
Volocopter
Aerospace / Urban Air Mobility
German electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) developer that filed for insolvency in December 2024, becoming the second German flying taxi star...
Valve Corporation
Gaming
Valve operates Steam gaming platform with first-mover advantage in digital distribution. Platform economics with 120+ million active users.
Vanguard
Financial Services/Asset Management
The investment firm that built $9 trillion on a signal impossible to fake: we literally cannot cheat you. Founded in 1975 by John Bogle, Vanguard ope...
VDL Group
Precision Manufacturing
Netherlands-based company that manufactures precision mechanical modules for ASML's lithography systems. Part of ASML's mutualistic supplier ecosystem...
Venmo
Mobile Payments
Mobile payment service acquired by PayPal in 2013. The acquisition was enabled by PayPal's strategic freedom post-spinoff from eBay, demonstrating how...
VeriSign
Internet Infrastructure
VeriSign operates .com and .net domain registry with monopoly position. Extreme first-mover advantage with network effects from established standards.
Verizon
Telecommunications
Verizon exhibits economies of scale in wireless network infrastructure and spectrum ownership. Network effects where coverage quality attracts subscri...
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceutical company specializing in rare diseases, especially cystic fibrosis. Limits executive hiring from oncology-focused pharma (Genentech, Bri...
Vertu
Consumer Electronics/Mobile
British luxury mobile phone manufacturer (2002-2017) that exemplifies failed intersexual choice - courting preferences customers didn't actually have....
Vodacom
Telecommunications
Vodacom Group is a leading African mobile communications company serving over 120 million customers in South Africa, Tanzania, DRC, Mozambique, Lesoth...
Vodafone
Telecommunications
Vodafone is one of the world's leading telecommunications companies, providing mobile and fixed connectivity services, IoT solutions, and enterprise s...