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Not the first.
Apple hit a $1tn market capitalisation in 2019, 42 years after it was founded and 117 years after US Steel became the first company to be valued at $1bn in 1901.
But it is not the first company in the world to smash the $2tn barrier. Link: Saudi Aramco touches $2tn in value on second day of trading after the Saudi state-backed oil company made its stock market debut last year.