When Apple reached another milestone earlier this week, breaching the $3 trillion market cap, albeit briefly, it was very much a sign of things to come.
The tech giant became the first-ever publicly-traded company to be worth that much. For some perspective, this was more than Netflix, Goldman Sachs, Starbucks, IBM, Walt Disney Co., Nike, Walmart, JP Morgan Chase, Johnson & Johnson, and PepsiCo combined. The numbers are staggering.