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Grant Miller

Grant Miller covers technology, media and finance ownership for Who Is The Owner Of. He focuses on US-listed companies — chipmakers, social platforms, streaming services, fintechs — and the founder-controlled corners of the market where dual-class share structures, voting trusts and family holdings still decide who actually steers a trillion-dollar ship. Every profile he writes is built on filings first, opinion second. That means 10-K and proxy statements from SEC EDGAR, beneficial-ownership disclosures, S-1 registration documents for newly-public companies, and tier-1 secondary sources like Bloomberg, Forbes, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. Grant writes in plain English — no MBA jargon, no marketing speak. His goal is that a reader who has never opened a 10-K should still understand exactly who owns the company by the time they finish a post.

Top 10 Fast Food Chains and Who Owns Them (2026)
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Top 10 Fast Food Chains and Who Owns Them (2026)

Drive past any American suburb and you'll see the logos: golden arches, white-and-red, blue-and-yellow. What's invisible from the parking lot is that…

May 20, 2026 View profile →
Top 10 Crypto Exchanges and Who Owns Them (2026)
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Top 10 Crypto Exchanges and Who Owns Them (2026)

The crypto exchange landscape changed dramatically between 2022 and 2026. FTX collapsed. Binance lost its US presence and faced multi-billion-dollar settlements. Coinbase…

May 20, 2026 View profile →
Top 10 Sports Apparel Brands and Who Owns Them (2026)
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Top 10 Sports Apparel Brands and Who Owns Them (2026)

The athletic-wear industry is one of the most consolidated branded-consumer categories in the world. Nike alone controls more than a third of…

May 19, 2026 View profile →
Top 10 Private Equity Firms and What They Own (2026)
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Top 10 Private Equity Firms and What They Own (2026)

Private equity is the most consequential industry in American business that most consumers will never knowingly interact with. PE firms now own…

May 19, 2026 View profile →
Top 10 Family-Owned Businesses in America (2026)
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Top 10 Family-Owned Businesses in America (2026)

America is supposed to be the land of public markets — companies go public, founders cash out, professional management takes over. In…

May 18, 2026 View profile →
Top 10 Hotel Brands and Their Parent Companies (2026)
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Top 10 Hotel Brands and Their Parent Companies (2026)

When you book a Marriott, you're usually not actually staying at a Marriott property — you're staying at a franchise that licenses…

May 18, 2026 View profile →
Top 10 US Airlines and Their Largest Shareholders (2026)
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Top 10 US Airlines and Their Largest Shareholders (2026)

The US airline industry has consolidated dramatically since 2008 — a string of mergers (Delta-Northwest, United-Continental, American-US Airways, Southwest-AirTran, Alaska-Virgin America, JetBlue-Spirit…

May 17, 2026 View profile →
Who Owns Palantir_ Peter Thiel, Alex Karp & Ownership Explained (2026)
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Who Owns Palantir? Peter Thiel, Alex Karp & Ownership Explained (2026)

Palantir Technologies is one of the most unusual companies in Silicon Valley. Founded with CIA seed funding and built on software designed…

May 17, 2026 View profile →
Top 10 American Car Brands and Their Parent Companies (2026)
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Top 10 American Car Brands and Their Parent Companies (2026)

There used to be Detroit's Big Three — Ford, GM, and Chrysler. Then Chrysler became Daimler-Chrysler, then Fiat-Chrysler, and finally Stellantis after…

May 17, 2026 View profile →
Who Owns xAI Elon Musk's $50 Billion AI Company Behind Grok (2026)
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Who Owns xAI? Elon Musk’s $50 Billion AI Company Behind Grok (2026)

xAI is Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, and it's one of the most closely watched AI startups in the world — not…

May 15, 2026 View profile →