No Apple? No IBM? You always put IBM on the list if for nothing else, out of respect.
Apple is my vote - they still to this day control the entire pipeline. Regardless of opinions on the walled garden or some of their recent missteps, it's incredibly difficult to build the hardware, strait through the software. No one on this list and no other tech company can or is willing to do that.
What I think is impressive is the amount of huge companies that started in Seattle:
Not to mention famous people too
The population of Seattle is just about half a million.
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none of the above :)