10 of the world's top 11 companies were founded on the US west coast — TSMC is the exception
Darpinian · x · 2026-10-31
X user Darpinian observed that 10 of the world's top 11 companies by market cap were founded on the US west coast (Apple, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, SpaceX, Tesla, Meta, Broadcom), with Taiwan's TSMC as the only exception. The accompanying ranking shows Apple at #1, NVIDIA at #2, followed by Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, TSMC, SpaceX, Saudi Aramco, Tesla, Meta and Broadcom.
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