这七家公司创立都不到10年，但美国人的生活已经离不开它们

Uber和YouTube的出现改变了人们出行和内容消费的方式，甚至改变了社会。过去的十年里，多个行业出现了不少改变人们生活的公司。以下七家公司涉及社交媒体、交通运输、食品、交友和办公，都对人们的工作、生活产生了深远影响。目前这七家公司的市值合计已经超过1500亿美元，在改变生活的同时也赚得盆满钵满。

1. Instagram

Instagram由迈克·克里格与凯文·斯特罗姆于2010年创办，为食品、酒店等多个行业带来了结构性变化。其出现还催生了FOMO（社交控）一词的出现。许多人在批评社交媒体和数字生活时都会炮轰Instagram，说现在做什么都是为了发到Instagram上：旅行、工作和生活都为了吸引粉丝，却因此而错过了当下的生活。

但不管热爱还是痛恨，看起来Instagram还会长期发展。2012年，该公司被Facebook以10亿美元收购，时至今日，它的估值已经超过1000亿美元，日活用户达5亿之众。

2. Snap

Snapchat创立仅比Instagram晚一年，其创始人为现任首席执行官埃文·斯皮格尔与首席技术官鲍比·墨菲。创立伊始，Snapchat就打破了社交媒体与通讯应用之间的界线，后来两个行业中很多公司纷纷效仿。值得注意的是，2013年Snapchat率先推出限时展示动态的“故事”功能，发布24小时后动态自动消失。2016年，Instagram加入了相似功能，也很受欢迎。

Snapchat于2017年上市，截至今年12月，其市值约为213亿美元，日活用户2.1亿。

3. Lyft

10年之前Uber便已成立，在其丑闻频出诉讼缠身的2012年，Lyft横空出世，迅速崛起为共享出行市场的有力竞争者。Statista数据显示，截至今年10月，Lyft在共享出行市场占28.8%的份额，仅次于Uber。

在与Uber竞争上市的过程中，Lyft也夺得了胜利，成为2019年首批IPO的科技巨头之一。截至今年12月，其市值约为142亿美元，活跃司机达2230万人。创始人约翰·齐默与洛根·格林分别担任公司总裁与首席执行官。

4. DoorDash

虽然Seamless、Grubhub早在1999年和2004年便已分别成立，但2013年成立的DoorDash眼光长远，没有拘泥于几个市场，反而后来居上。DoorDash由托尼·许、埃文·摩尔、安迪·方与斯坦利·唐联合创办，主要向现代社会中喜欢在家叫外卖的人们提供服务，也将Postmates和Uber Eats等知名品牌在内的外卖行业推向了美国主流社会。

据PitchBook数据，截至今年11月，DoorDash估值为130亿美元。目前该公司市场份额最高，达27.6%。

5. Impossible Foods

2011年，Impossible Foods由帕特里克·布朗创立，但直到2018年才通过爆款产品Impossible Burger真正地走入主流社会的视野。随着素食风潮的兴起，有利于环保的肉类替代产品也日益受到人们的欢迎。现在，Impossible Food的产品已经登陆全球17000家餐馆，其客户包括汉堡王、小凯撒餐厅和芝士工厂等。

在今年5月进行最新一轮融资后，该公司的估值达20亿美元。

6. Tinder

在线交友曾经是互联网上名声不佳的活动，现在已经无处不在。之所以会转变，都要感谢Tinder。Tinder是一款游戏化的交友、约会软件，由肖恩·拉德与贾斯汀·马廷在2014年创立。之后无数交友软件如雨后春笋般涌现，包括Bumble、Grindr、OkCupid以及Hinge等。十年前还有可能去酒吧偶遇灵魂伴侣，而现在根据《美国国家科学院院刊》（Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences）于2019年发布的研究报告，近40%的情侣都是通过网络相识。

据Statista数据，Tinder目前是用户量最大的交友软件，日浏览量超过20亿次，紧随其后的是Bumble。该软件由Match Group研发，Match Group旗下还有其他几款交友软件，如OkCupid和Hinge。

7. Slack

Slack常常宣称颠覆了办公方式，事实可能确实如此。该软件为办公室员工提供通讯、协作、文件分享及电话会议等全方位服务。该公司于2013年成立，其创始人为现任首席执行官斯图尔特·巴特菲尔德。2019年，该公司采取不常见的直接上市方法直接在交易所挂牌，一度成为热点新闻。

现在，每天使用Slack服务的用户超过1200万人，服务范围还在不断扩大。截至今年12月，该公司的市值约为116亿美元。（财富中文网）

译者：梁宇

审校：夏林

Companies like Uber and YouTube changed society in the early aughts by revolutionizing how we travel and consume content. This decade had its own share of life-changing companies across several industries. Whether social media, transportation, food, dating, or work-related companies, these seven corporations altered how we go about our days. And with a combined worth over $150 billion, they are cashing in to do it.

1. Instagram

Founded in 2010 by Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom, Instagram has changed the fabric of several industries from food to hospitality and been the impetus for the phrase FOMO (fear of missing out). Many critiques of social media and digital lives today hinge on the idea that people are doing it for the 'gram: performing their vacations, their businesses, and their lives for their Instagram followers to see while missing the moment at hand.

But whether you love it or hate it, Instagram appears to be in it for the long haul. The company—acquired by Facebook in 2012 for $1 billion—is now estimated to be worth over $100 billion with 500 million daily active users.

2. Snap

Snapchat was founded just one year after Instagram in 2011 by Evan Spiegel, who remains CEO today, and Bobby Murphy, current CTO. At its inception, the app straddled the line between social media and messaging service in a way that continues to ripple through both industries today. Notably, Snapchat was the first to debut a “story” feature of ephemeral posts for all of a user’s followers to see for just 24 hours in 2013. Instagram followed suit to great success in 2016.

The company went public in 2017 and has a market cap around $21.3 billion as of December. It has 210 million active daily users.

3. Lyft

Though Uber was founded before the turn of this decade, Lyft raced onto the scene in 2012 and quickly rose to compete with the original ride share service. Lyft found quite a bit of success as an alternative service when Uber was navigating several scandals and lawsuits. It now owns 28.8% of the ride-share market as of October, according to Statista, second only to Uber.

Lyft was one of the first blockbuster tech IPOs of 2019, beating Uber to the trading block. It has a market cap around $14.2 billion as of December, and has 22.3 million active riders. Founders John Zimmer and Logan Green remain with the company as president and CEO, respectively.

4. DoorDash

While Seamless was founded in 1999 and Grubhub in 2004, DoorDash's arrival on the scene in 2013 turned the food delivery industry on its head as it was adopted beyond just a few markets. Founded by Tony Xu, Evan Moore, Andy Fang, and Stanley Tang, the company helped take the entire industry— home to household names like Postmates and Uber Eats—mainstream nationwide by successfully catering to a generation that wanted to treat themselves while staying home.

Doordash, valued at $13 billion as of November according to PitchBook data, has the highest market share in its category at 27.6%.

5. Impossible Foods

Impossible Foods was founded by Patrick O. Brown in 2011 but really burst into the mainstream in 2018 with the popular Impossible Burger. As plant-based diets are on the rise, the environmentally-friendly meat substitute is, too. Impossible products are now sold in over 17,000 restaurants worldwide, including Burger King, Little Caesar's, and Cheesecake Factory.

Its latest round of funding in May valued the company at $2 billion.

6. Tinder

Online dating, once a desktop-bound activity awash in stigma, is now ubiquitous. And for that, we have Tinder to thank. Tinder, the gamified dating and hook-up app, was founded by Sean Rad and Justin Mateen in 2014. Since then, countless dating apps have popped up, including Bumble, Grindr, OkCupid, and Hinge. At the beginning of this decade, you might have met your soulmate at a bar. But now, around 40% of all couples met online, according to a 2019 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Tinder has over 2 billion views per day and is the dating app with the most users, followed by Bumble, according to Statista. The app is owned by Match Group, which owns several other dating apps like OkCupid and Hinge.

7. Slack

Slack likes to say it revolutionized the workplace, and that might very well be true. The does-it-all service for the modern office worker combines messaging, file sharing, conference calling, and collaborating. The company was founded in 2013 by current CEO Stewart Butterfield and made headlines in 2019 for going public through the oft-unused method of a direct listing.

Over 12 million people use Slack daily, and the service is growing each year. The company has a market cap around $11.6 billion as of December.