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Vizio company history timeline
2002 as V, Inc. in Fountain Valley, CA by William Wang and Co-founders Laynie Newsome and Ken Lowe.
The company started in 2002 as GreenDane by William Wang, Laynie Newsome, and Ken Lowe with $600,000 and three employees.
The company was founded in 2002 as V Inc. by entrepreneur William Wang and two founding employees.
By 2004, Wang changed the company name to Vizio.
Just one year later, in 2007, that number jumped to over $2 billion.
As of 2012, Vizio has over 400 employees.
In late 2014, Vizio acquired Advanced Media Research Group, Inc., the parent of entertainment website BuddyTV.
On July 24, 2015, Vizio filed with United States regulators to raise up to $172.5 million in an initial public offering of Class A common stock; however, the IPO was never completed.
From the year 2016 onwards, Vizio launched its SmartCast across all television sets including apps such as Netflix, YouTube and Disney+.
In February 2017, Vizio agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle the charges.
In 2018, Vizio launched a free streaming service called WatchFree, powered by Pluto TV, on its SmartCast platform.
Inscape functioned as an independent entity until the end of 2020, when it was combined with Vizio Ads and SmartCast; the three divisions combining to operate as a single unit.
The company reported total revenue of $2.04 billion and net income of $102.5 million by the end of 2020.
In March 2021, Vizio filed for an IPO. In the same month, Vizio was listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol VZIO.
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Vizio may also be known as or be related to V Inc. (2002–2004), VIZIO, Vizio and Vizio, Inc.