In One Timeline

How the Trillion-Dollar Club Filled Up

Ten companies crossed a $1 trillion market cap in about eight years — Apple's 42-year climb, Aramco's and SpaceX's straight-inside debuts, NVIDIA's run to five trillion — drawn to scale, asterisks included.

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01SpaceX Falcon 9 / Crew Dragon Demo-2 liftoff (thumbnail b-roll)
NASA / Kim ShiflettLiftoff of SpaceX Demo-2.jpg / Public domain
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02SpaceX wordmark (legend/scene/thumbnail, recolored white)
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Data sources & references

01Market caps — split-adjusted closing price (Yahoo Finance) × shares outstanding (SEC filings), 2018–2026, log scale
02Milestone first-cross dates — cross-checked against named press (CNBC, Bloomberg, Reuters, AP)
03SpaceX — reported market cap since its 2026-06-12 IPO (Nasdaq: SPCX); sourced CNBC / CNN / Investing.com per research/claims-ledger.md
04Music — "Between the Lines" by Ondrosik, CC0 1.0