Investing with a longer time horizon empowers investors to zoom out and focus on the big picture. These companies are poised to thrive over the next decade.

A relatively small Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up created a large language model (LLM) generative-AI chatbot to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT. But this isn't the major story. The major story is the bomb the company dropped in January: that it reportedly trained its model using just $6 million and a couple thousand Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA)

Over a time frame of that length, business results should take over as the key factor for stock performance rather than short-term market sentiment. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is a key part of most U.S. consumers' lives.