[israrkhan]

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

[malfist]

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_godel]

> 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.

[capyba]

Can you explain this to me? Trying to understand but can’t haha.

[rpcope1]

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.

[hollerith]

Yeah, the fact that $2.5 trillion of actual investor money chose Google (Alphabet) means very little: what really matters is the opinions of anonymous commenters on HN (especially opinions that start with "doesn't really feel like")

People are so careful when writing anonymous HN comments and so careless in choosing where to invest their own money and the money of funds of which they are the professional manager