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by grillvogel 3704 days ago
>and none of them were even close to that position 10 years ago

I think you are failing to see the overall picture. 10 years is not a long time, those companies could fall out of favor at any time. yes software runs the world, but is it facebook and twitter software or software that runs industrial services and backend systems? do you really think Uber is more important than something like general electric or dow chemical?