Who would have believed at the turn of the 21st century that there would be such a thing as a trillion-dollar stock? (Or that the Dow would reach 36,000, for that matter?)
At the end of 2000, the most valuable company was Exxon Mobil (XOM), with a market capitalization — price times shares outstanding — of roughly $302 billion. That's one-fifteenth the value of Nvidia (NVDA) today. Just counting to a trillion incredibly fast, with no bathroom breaks, would take 32,000 years, according to the Q&A platform Quora.com.
