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5-year profit growth forecasts:
Palantir: +960%
Tesla: +607%
Nvidia: +451%
Amazon: +196%
Alphabet: +173%
Microsoft: +130%
Meta: +90%
Apple: +16%
Source: average analyst estimates
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Steve Ballmer’s reaction to the iPhone.
September returns for S&P 500 over 25 years:
2025: +3.50%
2024: +2.00%
2023: −4.90%
2022: −9.30%
2021: −4.80%
2020: −3.90%
2019: +1.70%
2018: +0.40%
2017: +1.90%
2016: −0.10%
2015: −2.60%
2014: −1.60%
2013: +2.97%
2012: +2.40%
2011: −7.20%
2010: +8.80%
2009: +3.60%
2008: −9.10%
2007: +3.60%
2006: +2.50%
2005: +0.70%
2004: +0.90%
2003: −1.20%
2002: −11.00%
2001: −8.20%
25-year average: −1.2%
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On this day in 2000: Nokia 3310 released.
4 years ago, Nvidia's annual revenue was just over $25 billion.
4 years from now, analysts estimate Nvidia's annual revenue will be nearly $1 trillion.
“Big opportunities in life have to be seized.”
~ Warren Buffett
“Ask yourself who you’d want to spend the last day of your life with and then meet with them as often as you can.”
~ Warren Buffett
“You’ve got to be prepared, when you buy a stock, to have it go down 50% or more - and be comfortable with it.”
~ Warren Buffett
“Diversification is a protection against ignorance.”
~ Warren Buffett
"Money has no utility to me. Time has utility to me."
~ Warren Buffett
Revenue generated per day:
Amazon: $2.2 billion
Alphabet: $1.3 billion
Apple: $1.2 billion
Nvidia: $1.1 billion
Microsoft: $1 billion
Meta: $676 million
Tesla: $314 million
Broadcom: $247 million
Uber: $158 million
Netflix: $140 million
Visa: $129 million
AMD: $128 million
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Apple’s 1977 marketing manifesto:
Q2 revenue in 2026:
Amazon: $201 billion
Walmart: $188 billion
Q2 revenue in 1996:
Walmart: $26 billion
Amazon: $2 million
On this day in 1991: first email sent from space.
This was Nvidia’s first office.
Today, Nvidia’s worth $5.4 trillion.
In March 2000, Palm and BlackBerry together were worth more than all these companies combined: Nvidia, Amazon, Apple, Google, Nike, Starbucks, Netflix, and Salesforce.
U.S. national debt:
2026: $40 trillion
2025: $38 trillion
2024: $36 trillion
2014: $24 trillion
2004: $12 trillion
1994: $10 trillion
1984: $5 trillion
1974: $3 trillion
1964: $3 trillion
1954: $3 trillion
1944: $4 trillion
1934: $637 billion
1924: $395 billion
(inf adjusted)
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How Pixar made Toy Story:
Jeff Bezos posted the first job opening at Amazon on this day in 1994.
In 2018, a husband and wife pitched their business on Shark Tank.
They wanted $400,000 for 10%.
The only offer was $400,000 for 25%.
They accepted.
7 years later, PepsiCo bought them for $1.95 billion.
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