I suppose one could create a new market which could have capacity for such jobs. That might still be in the best interest of a startup.
I suppose one could create a new market which could have capacity for such jobs. That might still be in the best interest of a startup.
I'd be really surprised if Microsoft or Google didn't have this impact worldwide, though in Microsoft's case it might be tough to distinguish whether those are net jobs. (Though in fairness, in a very real sense, everyone at Google and Google's ecosystem owes their jobs to Bill Gates putting a computer on every desk and many homes.)
Seems like walmart and the Chinese energy companies are the only private employers of >1m humans.
As the people employed may or may not work for you, and as a lot of companies displace other companies, having a million employees is neither necessary nor sufficient.
Not that it precisely fills this need, but look at things like Mechanical Turk. That's one way to think about this problem: rather than being a direct employer of millions, find ways to connect millions with useful employment doing jobs that we can't easily automate.
Edit: Looks like the "List of largest employers" in the other comments confirms this with the military companies as the top employers. :-(