At the time of writing, Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., had a market capitalization of $1.8 trillion. In 2020, Apple became the first publicly traded US company to hit a $2 trillion valuation, while Amazon’s and Microsoft’s market values were hovering at around $1.7 trillion and an astonishing $3 trillion, respectively. Before Apple first became a trillion-dollar company in 2018, no company ever had become so big. Yet there’s one thing that nearly all the world’s most valuable companies have in common: they are tech firms. In fact, the companies that we might normally think of as being
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