Let's say this circle is Salesforce.

Salesforce is a big company that owns other big companies. Companies you may recognize like Slack, Tableau, and MuleSoft.

But what about the the other 150 companies owned by Salesforce? The ones based in Portugal, India, and — for reasons I can only assume are legal — the Cayman Islands?
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Global companies are a world in and of themselves. Especially on the internet.

Multi-nationals may have a handful of subsidiaries, but their website portfolios are often much larger, sometimes including the internet's most trafficked websites.
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Take Christian Dior — luxurious, elegant, and keeper of some of the most popular fashion websites in the world.

Companies — mostly those headquartered in the Americas and Europe — own thousands of subsidiaries all over the world.

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Why does General Motors manage a domain in New Caledonia? Turns out it's a *tiny* island that accounts for 10% of the world's nickel reserves. This is critical for making EVs (and destroying wetlands)!
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Thanks for reading! For more information about the data, check it out at OECD. For more information about the author (again, me!), check out this portfolio. And for those that love the weeds, here's the process deck.