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israrkhanlast Monday at 11:23 PM3 repliesview on HN

In terms of market cap OpenAI (500B valuation) is 5x smaller than Google.


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malfistlast Monday at 11:35 PM

Leaving aside the pendatic "you can't be a multiple smaller than another object", 1/5 the valuation of the 5th most valuable company in the world is probably big enough to qualify you as a big company

not_kurt_godellast Monday at 11:47 PM

> Leaving aside the pendatic "you can't be a multiple smaller than another object"

Feel free to not leave this out, it's a pet peeve of mine. Thank you for the moment of catharsis.

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rpcope1last Tuesday at 12:49 AM

Market cap doesn't really feel like a good metric of anything other than what it would take to buy a company out. DuPont has a market cap of 30ish billion and 3M around 80B, and both are both larger and frankly more important than probably even Google.

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