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If you read the article, it mentions that it would be the first US-based company to hit the four comma club. They even point out that the East India Trading co
by jperras 9y ago
If you read the article, it mentions that it would be the first US-based company to hit the four comma club.
They even point out that the East India Trading company, when adjusted for inflation, was a 7.9T company.
- jedberg 9y agoAh I didn't notice their "US Based" qualifier.
- garmaine 9y agoWhich still wouldn't be true because Standard Oil, adjusted for inflation, was >$1Tn.
- TheCoelacanth 9y agoIt's not really adjusted for inflation, though. It's adjusted for what percentage of the world's GDP at the time it constituted. That's a metric that favors older companies because there was a much smaller number of companies at the time.