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Commercial Contingents In The 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade
Businesses that particpated as contingents in the Pride Parade.
Airbnb Apple Inc. Bank Of The West Facebook Genentech Google Hard Rock Cafe LinkedIn Netflix Pacific Gas and Electric Company Salesforce San Francisco Bay Times Twitter Uber Vera Sphere Virgin America Wells Fargo
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Airbnb, In The 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade

Airbnb was an online marketplace that enabled people to list, find, then rent vacation homes for a processing fee.It had over 1,500,000 listings in 34,000 cities and 191 countries.Airbnb was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Apple Inc., In The 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.

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Bank Of The West, In The 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade

A diversified financial services holding company, headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is a subsidiary of BNP Paribas.

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San Francisco Bay Times, In The 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade

A newspaper and on-line presence whichsupplies LGBTQ news & calendar for the San Francisco Bay Area

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Facebook, In The 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade

Facebook is a for-profit corporation and online social networking service based in Menlo Park, California, United States.

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Genentech, In The 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade

A member of the Roche Group, Genentech is a gene research company.

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Google, In The 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade

Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products that include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software.

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Hard Rock Cafe, In The 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade

Hard Rock Cafe International, Inc. is a chain of theme restaurants founded in 1971 by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton in London. In 1979, the cafe began covering its walls with rock and roll memorabilia, a tradition which expanded to others in the chain. In 2007, Hard Rock was sold to the Seminole Tribe of Florida, headquartered in Orlando, Florida.

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LinkedIn, In The 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade

LinkedIn was a business-oriented social networking service. Founded in 2002 and launched in 2003, it was mainly used for professional networking

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Netflix, In The 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade

Netflix Inc. (NETFLIX) is an American multi-national entertainment company founded in 1997 in Scotts Valley, California by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. It specializes in and provides streaming media and video on demand both online and physically. It is currently headquartered in Los Gatos.

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Pacific Gas and Electric Company, In The 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade

Often abbreviated PG&E, Pacific Gas & Electric Company is a combined natural gas and electric utility provider for northern and central California.

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Salesforce, In The 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade

An American cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Though its revenue comes from a customer relationship management (CRM) product, Salesforce also capitalizes on commercial applications of social networking through acquisition.

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Twitter, In The 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade

Twitter was an online social networking service that enabled users tosend and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registeredusers could read and post tweets, but those who were unregistered couldonly read them.

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Uber, In The 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade

Uber Technologies Inc. is an American company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops, markets and operates the Uber mobile "app", which allows consumers with smartphones to submit a trip request, which the software backend then automatically sends to the Uber driver nearest to the consumer, which alerts the driver to the location of the customer. Uber drivers use their own cars. [paraphrased from Wikipedia]

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Vera Sphere, In The 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade

The character Mrs. Vera was created by Michael Johnstone and hispartner David Faulk. Faulk fabricates the costumes from recycledmaterials and is Mrs. Vera in the Mrs. Vera's Daybook photo Series .InJohnstone's work, the notion of drag is both deconstructed andcelebrated.

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Virgin America, In The 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade

A contingent made up of employees and families of Virgin America.

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Wells Fargo, In The 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade

Wells Fargo & Company is an American international banking and financial services holding company headquartered in San Francisco, California.The company operates across 35 countries and has over 70 million customers globally.


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