MS also sells the same things in somewhat the same ways from 30 years back. But their business models are not same at all, nobody is valuing MS at trillions of

MS also sells the same things in somewhat the same ways from 30 years back. But their business models are not same at all, nobody is valuing MS at trillions of dollars for its Windows OS licencing business. In the last 20 years MS has diversifyer into gaming and cloud successfull that are a big chunk of its current business and future growth, even with older products like Office they successfully pivoted to O365 and converted it to a recurring revenue stream. Amazon is making more money from AWS than retail and evolved a lot as a company. If the metaverse gamble works Facebook could be looked on as a similar success but until then their growth is risky