Microsoft is sort of two and a half trillion No one's even close after that pretty much trying to take Apple I mean if you just look at from a valuation standpoint it trades at a 30 times forward earnings So it was crazies at some point it was in the high single digits It traded at 35 last year, but its profits have gone up so it doesn't look Ridiculously expensive. Jeffrey sacks would argue that it's just stupid that the two largest economies Should kiss and make up cooperate.
Kara and Scott discuss Apple hitting a $3 trillion valuation, China announcing export restrictions on minerals used in the production of semiconductors, and GQ pulling an article critiquing David Zaslav. Also: Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads is officially here and racking in the downloads. A certain someone isn’t so happy about that. Plus, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction to prohibit certain communications between the Biden administration and social media sites. And a listener question on going from academia to the corporate world.
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