Company Size Debate

Discussions center on skepticism toward claims about the number of large companies (e.g., 500 or 135) with significant revenue or scale, with users questioning sources, providing counterexamples like Fortune 500 firms, and debating the total pool of global companies.

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technics256 Aug 13, 2020 View on HN

Source on the 500 companies? That's staggeringly high.

gabrielhidasy Mar 23, 2024 View on HN

I know at least a few many-hundred-billion dollar companies that fit that description...

verdverm Nov 26, 2019 View on HN

Reference for the 135 companies claim?

devoutsalsa Aug 19, 2022 View on HN

You know you're a big company when 3.5 billion USD is less than 1% of your total annual revenue.

samb1729 Mar 10, 2021 View on HN

Do there exist 50 companies their size for that number to make sense?

blondin Sep 9, 2022 View on HN

this is fine but my guess is their company is not big enough yet. the Apple example is not very convincing.

xref Jun 4, 2022 View on HN

Thousands upon thousands. There are a lot more companies in the world than FAANGs and SV unicorns.

nkassis Dec 21, 2016 View on HN

Probably more like multiple Fortune 100 companies combined.

colinm Jul 14, 2013 View on HN

Not every company is a billion dollar company. Is yours?

Keyframe Apr 28, 2024 View on HN

there are ~300-350m companies in the world also.