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First public trillion dollar company, right? Source: http://www.visualcapitalist.com/most-valuable-companies-all-time/ http://www.visualcapitalist.com/most-val

• nathanaldensr 8y ago
  In. History. :: serious face :: I'd say the Washington Post is off by maaaaaaaybe an order of magnitude, or more.
• xhrpost 8y ago
  Or even: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/petrochina-soars-to-1-trillion-market-cap-in-debut https://www.marketwatch.com/story/petrochina-soars-to-1-tril...
• ryanmercer 8y ago
  I guess you missed where that infographic says "inf. adjusted". Regardless of inflation adjusted or not, Dutch East India shouldn't be considered given their rampant use of slave labor. doing a lot of business off of slave trade (pretty easy to make money when you're kidnapping people and sailing them across an ocean then selling them), having a nearly absolute monopoly, and uh... being government backed.
  • jandrese 8y ago
    Kind of arbitrary to exclude a company because it uses slave labor or other immoral practices. Your list of giant multinationals would be very short indeed. No textile producers for example except for some tiny boutique shops. No petrochemcial companies at all. No agribusiness. Modern society is built on the suffering of the poor and disenfranchised.
    • ryanmercer 8y ago
      >Kind of arbitrary to exclude a company because it uses slave labor or other immoral practices. No it is arbitrary to say "nuh uh this company back when was worth a trillion dollars, if we adjust for inflation". Apple is literally the first worth a trillion United States dollars, a currency that did not even exist for the first 190 years of the Dutch East India company.