Calmly count to 60. One minute. In that time, Amazon earned US$840.00. Or at least that's what it earned during every minute of the first quarter of the year (which totaled 129,600 minutes), according to calculations by Statista. Amazon wasn't the only tech company earning millions per minute, according to Statista's exercise. Apple earned US$690,000 per minute in the first quarter of this year, while Alphabet, Google's holding company, ranked third with US$430,000 per minute.

Source: Statista