How Do They Make Money?

Adobe is the world's leading creative software company, generating the vast majority of its revenue from Creative Cloud and Digital Experience subscriptions used by millions of creators and enterprises.

Airbnb is the world's largest marketplace for short-term rentals and travel experiences, earning money by charging service fees to both guests and hosts on every booking.

Alphabet is the parent company of Google, generating the majority of its revenue from digital advertising across Search, YouTube, and its ad network.

Amazon generates revenue through online and physical retail, AWS cloud services, third-party marketplace fees, advertising, and Prime subscriptions.

Anthropic is the AI safety company behind Claude, generating revenue through API access and Claude Pro/Team subscriptions for its advanced AI assistant.

Apple generates the majority of its revenue from iPhone sales, complemented by a high-margin Services business (App Store, iCloud, Apple Music) and sales of Mac, iPad, and wearable devices.

Cohere is an enterprise-focused AI company building large language models optimized for business applications, co-founded by a co-inventor of the Transformer architecture.

Coinbase is the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, making money through trading transaction fees, stablecoin revenue from USDC, blockchain rewards, and subscription services.

DoorDash is the leading food delivery and local commerce platform in the United States, earning revenue through marketplace fees, delivery charges, and merchant advertising.

Hugging Face is the leading open-source AI platform and model hub, generating revenue through enterprise subscriptions, inference endpoints, and compute services.

Inflection AI created the Pi chatbot before most of its team joined Microsoft, now generating revenue primarily through technology licensing to Microsoft.

Meta generates nearly all of its revenue from targeted digital advertising across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and its Audience Network, with emerging revenue from Reality Labs VR products.