← Back to context Comment by IncreasePosts 13 hours ago For the same period:AMZN: +2100% META: +1700% MSFT: +1300% GOOG: +1400% 3 comments IncreasePosts Reply postalcoder 9 hours ago This is a specious comparison at best. Apple is, at heart, a hardware company. They have different growth profiles. A consumer hardware company getting that sort of growth is mind boggling. elicash 13 hours ago Was meta a public company back then? Amazon, I think, was quite small, too. kristianp 10 hours ago You're right, Facebook didn't go public until May 2012, after the start of the period mentioned. Amazon went public in '97.
postalcoder 9 hours ago This is a specious comparison at best. Apple is, at heart, a hardware company. They have different growth profiles. A consumer hardware company getting that sort of growth is mind boggling.
elicash 13 hours ago Was meta a public company back then? Amazon, I think, was quite small, too. kristianp 10 hours ago You're right, Facebook didn't go public until May 2012, after the start of the period mentioned. Amazon went public in '97.
kristianp 10 hours ago You're right, Facebook didn't go public until May 2012, after the start of the period mentioned. Amazon went public in '97.
This is a specious comparison at best. Apple is, at heart, a hardware company. They have different growth profiles. A consumer hardware company getting that sort of growth is mind boggling.
Was meta a public company back then? Amazon, I think, was quite small, too.
You're right, Facebook didn't go public until May 2012, after the start of the period mentioned. Amazon went public in '97.