Re:Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles
by vfxGer on Sunday October 25, 2026 @11:06AM
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I was playing around with visualising the S&P 500 by market cap and decided to add employees to each company's bubble.
What surprised me was how empty some of the biggest companies looked.
Nvidia is worth $5.2 trillion but employs only 42,000 people. That's around $124 million in market cap per employee. Meanwhile, Accenture employs 814,000 people and is worth $146 billion.
Each stick figure represents 10,000 employees. You can zoom in and explore individual companies.
What surprised me was how empty some of the biggest companies looked.
Nvidia is worth $5.2 trillion but employs only 42,000 people. That's around $124 million in market cap per employee. Meanwhile, Accenture employs 814,000 people and is worth $146 billion.
Each stick figure represents 10,000 employees. You can zoom in and explore individual companies.
I wrote a bit more about what I found here: https://bigwhalehunting.com/blog/workforce/
Would be interested to hear what you think.