Could someone please make a scatterplot of this data, with a curve fitted to it? I suspect there is a very important shape here that no one has seen before.https://twitter.com/JonErlichman/status/1095395031006040071 …
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There are some notable omissions, esp. Standard Oil (which grew amazingly), only companies from the breakup.
Yeah, I was thinking that too. Perhaps the Esso cos (as it were) should be considered as one.
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I think $50b is completely arbitrary, and the relevant measure is going to be a proxy of company market cap as a % of total market market. Something like ratio of market cap to combined market cap of 100 largest publicly traded companies.
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Like we do when comparing Ruth to Aaron.
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SO had earnings of 50 mill in 1900, about 1.5 bill today. Don't know revenue, but wouldn't be surprised if above 50 bill. Founded in 1870, I believe.
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One of the strangest things about the graph is the lack of outliers above the line. It says that at any given time there's a window to get big. And that window is decreasing.
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