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I'm not sure why 'start-up' is significant, or even accurate. Standard Oil hit a market cap of over $1 trillion without computers. Maybe it was a coal-industr

I'm not sure why 'start-up' is significant, or even accurate. Standard Oil hit a market cap of over $1 trillion without computers. Maybe it was a coal-industry-disruptor start-up...?

astrodust 8y ago
Things moved a lot more slowly back then. News cycles were in terms of days or weeks.