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Apple was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in Silicon Valley, with the aim of commercializing the Apple I , a personal computer designed by Wozniak. In the following years, the company released innovative products such as the Apple II and the Macintosh , which set new standards for the personal computer industry. However, despite these early successes, Apple faced internal and external challenges, leading to the departure of Steve Jobs in 1985 after disagreements with the company's management. During Jobs' absence, Apple faced a series of difficulties. Competition with Microsoft and its Windows operating system, combined with questionable internal decisions, brought the company to the brink of bankruptcy in the 1990s. However, in a dramatic turnaround , Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997.
With its founder back at the helm Apple launched a series of revolutionary products, including the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad, which not only saved the company from bankruptcy, but also positioned it as a Brother cell phone list global leader in technology and innovation. Today, Apple is one of the most valuable and influential companies in the world, known for its ability to innovate and set trends . Traded on the United States stock exchange, under the ticker AAPL , the company is the most valuable in the world, with a market value of US$2.8 trillion, slightly more than Brazil's GDP. As shown in the figure below, behind Apple we have Microsoft and the giant Saudi Aramco , which operates in the oil sector in Saudi. The 50 most valuable companies in the world 50 most valuable companies in the world.
Visual Capitalist The new Apple It is the role of every analyst and the desire of every investor to try to find success stories, as Apple has been over the decades. Perhaps more difficult than finding such a solid investment thesis is keeping this company in your portfolio for decades , but that's a topic for another newsletter. Amid thousands of possibilities, given that we currently have around 58 thousand companies listed worldwide, almost 6 thousand in the United States and just under 500 in Brazil, finding the new pot of gold is hard work. There are several criteria that a company must meet to enter the select group of most valuable companies in the world, but a factor common to practically all of them is the revolution they caused at a given moment. The current revolution certainly has to do with artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications. This technology, despite not being new, only at the end of last year exploded into the hands of ordinary microcomputer users, due to the launch of GPT Chat . We have thousands of companies developing technologies for the most diverse fields using AI.
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发表于 2023-10-14 16:52:46
