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1% Smarter #16 – Just How Big is BigTech?

July 31, 2020 By theavidbookreader Leave a Comment

1% Smarter #16 - Putting Things into Perspective - Just How Big is BigTech?

Combined market cap of the four behemoths: a whopping $5 trillion. For context this is the list of the top 10 countries by GDP per the World Bank (2019). Notice that if these four companies were a country they would be ranked either third or fourth in the world!

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1% Smarter #7 – Putting Things into Perspective – The Number of People in the World

February 10, 2019 By theavidbookreader Leave a Comment

Putting Things into Perspective - The Number of People in the World

It took over 200,000 years of human history for the world’s population to reach 1 billion; and only 200 years more to reach 7 billion. That is an astonishing example of exponential growth.

Filed Under: 1% Smarter, Putting Things into Perspective Tagged With: Bible

1% Smarter #3 – Putting Things into Perspective – A Billion Versus a Million

January 11, 2019 By theavidbookreader Leave a Comment

Putting Things into Perspective - A Billion Versus a Million

If I were to ask you how long do you think 1,000,000 seconds is what would you guess? Go ahead, take a guess and convert it to an equivalent number of hours, days, months or years.

Filed Under: 1% Smarter, Putting Things into Perspective Tagged With: Richard Evan Schwartz

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