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You're grossly overestimating how many people care about big companies, at least on a daily basis. Most people don't invest in anything and will never get a job at a big American company. They do know about ChatGPT but that doesn't mean they know who makes it.

You're one of those people who needs to expand their worldview, then.

I live in a progressive city in North Carolina and constantly find that when people have never heard of them things that every HN reader (and probably every Bay Area resident, I dunno) would know about. Bubbles are real.

go ask 100 random people across the world and I bet less than 20 will know both those company names.

I'd go with fewer than 5.