Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles
THE SO WHAT
Visualizing market cap against headcount — Nvidia at ~$124M per employee — underlines how much value is accruing to compute and IP, not labor. For operators, that’s a prompt to reassess where leverage really sits in your business: talent density, proprietary models, or distribution.
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