Evidence

Format Web Page

"SAGE was developed as a U.S.-backed real-time air-defense computing system for North America."

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Source title SAGE

Source authors IBM

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"Ayn Rand’s Objectivism has documented influence within parts of technology and business culture."

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Source title Ayn Rand and leadership in the tech industry: the Twitter takeover and the disdain for communication and stakeholder principles

Source authors Philipp Bachmann; Diana Ingenhoff

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Shift Robotics says its AI-assisted Moonwalkers are optimized for 250% of normal walking speed and reach up to 7 mph."

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Source title Support for Moonwalkers | Shift Robotics

Source authors Shift Robotics

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance low

Format Web Page

"Juicero’s original machine cost $700, used Wi-Fi to validate juice packs, and squeezed them with a gear-driven square press."

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Source title How on Earth Could a Juicer Cost $700? Because Yves Béhar

Source authors Margaret Rhodes

Source year 2016

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"By 2015, approximately 3.2 billion people worldwide were using the internet."

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Source title ITU releases annual global ICT data and ICT Development Index country rankings

Source authors International Telecommunication Union

Source year 2015

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Brendan Eich prototyped the first JavaScript engine in ten days in May 1995."

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Source title New JavaScript Engine Module Owner

Source authors Brendan Eich

Source year 2011

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"By 2011, cloud computing and internet services had dramatically reduced the infrastructure required to launch a global software startup."

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Source title Why Software Is Eating the World

Source authors Marc Andreessen

Source year 2011

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Instagram ran its production service on Amazon EC2 from 2010 rather than building its own production-server infrastructure."

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Source title How Facebook Moved 20 Billion Instagram Photos Without You Noticing

Source authors Cade Metz

Source year 2014

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Instagram had about 30 million users and only 13 employees when Facebook announced its acquisition."

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Source title How Instagram founder Kevin Systrom became insta-rich

Source authors Jessica Guynn

Source year 2012

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Facebook announced an agreement to acquire Instagram on April 9, 2012 for approximately $1 billion in cash and shares."

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Source title Facebook to Acquire Instagram

Source authors Facebook

Source year 2012

Confidence high

Importance high