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> Amazon and Google did emerge from the dotcom era and both outrank Microsoft on the Fortune 500 today This is not true :)
by outside1234 2y ago
> Amazon and Google did emerge from the dotcom era and both outrank Microsoft on the Fortune 500 today
This is not true :)
- lurk2 2y agoIn 2024: Amazon was ranked #2 Google (Alphabet) was ranked #8 Microsoft was ranked #13 Amazon was founded in 1994. Google was founded in 1998. What about the statement: > Amazon and Google did emerge from the dotcom era and both outrank Microsoft on the Fortune 500 today isn’t true?
- cmrdporcupine 2y agoWhat I'd say with Google is that I don't really think of Google as a .com era company because its massive success and hype wave came after the .com wave and crash had ended, and Google around 99/2000 wasn't a big hyped .com company... In 99/2000 Google wasn't the massive success it was about 2 years later. And its IPO didn't happen until much later after the .com crash. It was known and popular among techies but wasn't the household name it became about 2002, 2003. When I think of the .com crash (and I lived through it) I think of the companies that had IPOd or were about to, and took massive investment in 99. In 99 Google was still a small concern. Amazon, yeah, I'd say Amazon is a late 90s company. Though they were just about books then.
- bigger_cheese 2y agoI lived through that time as well by 1999 it was pretty clear Google was "the best" search engine site. Alternatives like Lycos, Infoseek, Altavista etc. were on the downswing. I can remember the characters in an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer talking about Google (not sure if that counts as household awareness but it was getting there). 1999 was the time of Napster, it was a completely different internet it really felt like a Wild West.
- SamvitJ 2y agoFortune 500 is a ranking by revenue, not market capitalization, if that helps.