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Inflation adjusted historical trillionaires and multi-trillion dollar companies of today and yesterday

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Apple is currently the most valuable publicly traded company at about $474 billion. Exxon and Google follow at about $405 billion.

Apple had reached a peak of about $625 billion two years ago.

Apple would have been a trillion dollar company if Google had not released Android and Samsung and others had not enabled Android to grab more market share. Clearly if there were no Android smartphones and tablets those would have been Apple sales. Apple would easily have been double the valuation and likely triple. A true technology and design breakthrough that would have made a more than a trillion dollar public company if they had only been able to slow successful competitor entry by 2-4 years.

Inflation Adjusted Trillionaire

John D. Rockefeller, the richest American ever, saw his wealth peak in 1913 at around $900 million, or 2.5% of the country's GDP that year, according to biographer Ron Chernow. This would make Rockefeller worth about $400 billion. A figure in the range of $300-600 billion is reached either by updating the figure based on percent of US GDP or by using inflation adjustments. Rockefeller died in 1937. Assuming 2.5% annual GDP growth, then Rockefeller will be an inflation adjusted trillionaire in about 25 years.

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