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Nvidia is worth 20x 1985 IBM with a tenth the employees

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Nvidia is now twenty times more valuable than IBM in 1985 while employing a tenth as many people, as the US population is expected to decline for the first time and Mark Zuckerberg joined the move to Miami with a $200 million house.

Reported metric: 20x value / 0.1x staff

Reporting date: 2026-02-11 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to February 11, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Nvidia is worth 20x 1985 IBM with a tenth the employees
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Reporting date: 2026-02-11
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-11-nvidia-20x-ibm-with-a-tenth-the-staff
Claim: Nvidia is now twenty times more valuable than IBM in 1985 while employing a tenth as many people, as the US population is expected to decline for the first time and Mark Zuckerberg joined the move to Miami with a $200 million house.
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- Welcome to February 11, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-11-2026
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