The Interconnected World of Tech Companies [INFOGRAPHIC]
by
80
The “tech world” is really more of a “tech family.” Between digital giants’ appetites for acquisitions and the tendency of their ex-employees to start new companies, it’s easy to see how nearly every blip in the ecosystem is closely related.
We’ve mapped just a few of these family ties between “Xooglers,” the “PayPal Mafia”, “Softies” and the many other tech connectors who have yet to be nicknamed.
Our guess is that if you gathered a handful of tech veterans in a room, you could keep the tech connection game going forever. So while this graphic is hardly exhaustive, we’ll keep it going in the comments — feel free to add connections to the list!
Infographic design by Nick Sigler
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, BrianAJackson
![20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This Week [CHART]](http://7.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/125,social-tv-3601.jpg)
![Facebook Denies Looking At Your Text Messages [VIDEO]](http://7.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/125,facebook-mobile-app-600.jpg)
![How to Turn Off Google Search Plus Your World Results [VIDEO]](http://8.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/125,Google-Search-Plus-Your-World.jpg)
1 
2 
3 ![Nokia’s 41-Megapixel Camera Phone Takes Marvelous Photos [PICS]](http://4.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/125,nokia-808-sample-image-600.jpg)
4 
5 
I’m probably going to spend the entire rest of the day looking at this
same here
This is wicked. Kudos to Nick for creating this!
The Twitter bone’s connected to the… Mixer. The Mixer’s connected to the… Google.
This is just too awesome.
Can you add a few more circles and lines…I found that too easy to follow…..
it supossed to be easy to follow troll…
He was being sarcastic…
Absolutely Amazing.
I think that just made my head hurt, need to find a large printer to get this on one sheet of paper.
Trying to follow this gives me a headache
Love this graphic!
I read that EA Sports and Bungie both came because of Apple ‘Computers’. Anyway this graphic pretty much demonstrates how contrary to the cheerleaders of any one thing, in the end it all matters and it doesn’t.
I wonder if this also illustrates the concentration of money for investments in new tech companies.
Hey, @nick_sigler! Awesome job with this. Well done AND following you now. Take care! :)
Where is Yahoo in all of this? Wasn’t it important enough to be included in that list. Not that I have any objections but just wondering.
Ooh, I love this infographic!
WOW! This is an eye opener!
Wow, this is amazing, is there a secret to ranking high buy connecting the right dots of social media participation
This could be a all-nighter…
Really shows you how the world works.
Be connected!
It’s a small world after all. GT
This is quite crazy.
Wooow!
These guys really get around!
In my book, it all started in 1996 when the web went commercial.
Here is a helpful time line with links to 1996
http://issuu.com/bobsawatzki/docs/dayplanner/1
Connections btwn the rise and exit of many big names
Wow!
WHY NO YAHOO ?
Wow! Awesome job by Sarah Kessler!
This is a great start – and I don’t know how it’d be possible to fit in more detail with an already crowded chart, but…some quick notes:
If AOL makes the cut, then Yahoo’s gotta be on the infographic too. To start, Yahoo acquired Flickr, Delicious, Upcoming – out of Flickr came Hunch and Glitch. The Youtube guys now own Delicious. Andy Baio was involved with Kickstarter.
Biz Stone was at Google before joining Twitter, Instagram’s Kevin Systrom also had a stint at Twitter. Brizzly’s co-founder Chris Wetherell worked on Twitter too.
Quora was founded by an FB trio, one (at least) who was at Microsoft before FB.
Lots more Startup lineage discussion here: http://www.quora.com/Startup-Lineage
Flickr and Y! need to be in this smwhr. But the compilation itself is very nice.
Impressive.
Silicon Valley connection
This is awesome! Can I get it as a poster?
Enjoyed this one!
Interesting. I’m sure a lot of my FB friends would love this one…
The awesome connection of internet giants
Asana co-founder who was a Facebook employee is Dustin Moskovitz.
The Family Technology Tree
One big family!
Love how Yahoo is nowhere to be found.
Bem legal!!
amazing infophaphic
This is quite the info graphic! Very impressive.
Andy Lynn
kickanotch.com
good
Wow Impressive!! I would like to make a poster out of it. Really neat job!
Amazing infographic !!
You forgot Bret Taylor, co-founder of FriendFeed, now CTO of Facebook. The third co-founder Jim Norris was also former Google, now Facebook.
Incestuous.
Muito bom… recomendo…
Can I buy this as a Poster!
Great graph, I like it! Guys, Great job!