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Re:OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft by Nthringas on Thursday December 07, 2023 @04:20PM (#38561961)
I'm factoring in their legacy and history

i.e. since they're older they're bigger

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Re:OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft by xcv123 on Thursday December 07, 2023 @04:58PM (#38562383)
Microsoft is now 20x bigger than IBM in terms of market cap.
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Re:OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft by Nthringas on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:34PM (#38564713)
the only way to settle this is to sum the market cap of both companies over their entire history while adjusting all values for inflation

keep in mind that IBM[0] is over a hundred years old, and microsoft isn't even half of that [0]

[0] wikipedia

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Re:OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft by xcv123 on Thursday December 07, 2023 @10:18PM (#38565042)
The only way to settle this once and for all, is an arm wrestle between Arvind Krishna and Satya Nadella.
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Re:OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft by Nthringas on Friday December 08, 2023 @08:17AM (#38568632)
that would not settle it "once and for all"

it would merely settle "for now" becuase as soon as either of them get succeded you will have to repeat the contest

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Re:OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft by blackmesaind on Friday December 08, 2023 @09:12AM (#38569243)
This could be a product of your own PoV & history with IBM. Not many consider IBM's legacy noteworthy, they became complacent and got beat out the market.
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Re:OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft by CyberDildonics on Friday December 08, 2023 @10:24AM (#38570102)
You can make up whatever you want, that doesn't mean it's reality. I guess Zildjian, the cymbal making company is bigger than amazon, apple, microsoft, netflix, facebook and IBM, since it was founded in 1623.
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Re:OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft by airstrike on Saturday December 09, 2023 @11:54AM (#38583434)
older and bigger are not synonyms. IBM is not bigger than Microsoft today. the past is irrelevant for this conversation.
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