There's no empirical data, at least not in the fortune 500, that show a company with more than maybe ~500K employees. So the headline point is easily rejected a

There's no empirical data, at least not in the fortune 500, that show a company with more than maybe ~500K employees. So the headline point is easily rejected at that level. If the concept is to "create an ecosystem" that has 1x10^6 employees, than this seems almost trivial. In that case its just a series of logical optics on starting new industries. But again, what is the empirical data show? Would facebook meet this test? Did they invent social media? Probably not, so they are a "failure". Are there any companies in the fortune 500 that would? Maybe RCA and the TV industry? or the early Hollywood Studios? Silicon Valley itself seems have created more than "a million jobs" if you abstract it out to "the computer" industry, or "the software" industry but its largest companies don't get that big and its ecosystems are simply abstractions both in their point of origin and their ultimate threshold/boundary definitions. Having a company that employes people for "freelance work" is simply just an outsourcing shell company and nothing to be proud of. It also doesn't seem overly original, in the more dramatic way the the headline would suggest. I too want to have a million people doing my bidding for me, cheaply. (BTW, The fastest way to get this dynamic is probably to make the poor poorer, and the rich richer). suggested edit: New RFS: One Million Careers (McJob creators need not apply).