America’s Largest Company, Dating to 1920
February 29th, 2012




There’s a lot of really interesting things about this NYT infographic: How the relative size (adjusted for inflation) of the leaders during the tech bubble was so outsized. How the changes at the top of the leaderboard were so rare for 60 years, and then began to cluster.

But the thing which I found most surprising was the total number of “largest companies” in the last 90 years. I would never, ever have guessed that the answer was “12.”



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