Secrets of the world's richest company of all time

MSN.com ^ | 15 October 2015 | Daniel Coughlin

[zeestephen]

Discover the history of the Dutch East India Company - As powerful as a nation state, the Dutch East India Company sent almost a million Europeans to Asia on more than 4,700 ships and dominated global trade for almost two centuries. [This is a 31 slide photo gallery with commentary on each page]

[2ndDivisionVet]

They’re still around … don’t kid yourself.

[Jonty30]

There are probably many old companies that his behind a numbered company.

[mrsmith]

Thanks.

[sevlex]

“The spice must flow”.

[DoodleBob]

The other thing the Dutch East India Trade Co teaches us, is that because the US operation wasn’t broken up after 1787 (i.e. Around the time of the ratification of the Constitution), the Founders never intended for the Commerce Clause to empower the govt to engage in breaking up companies. Therefore, anyone who champions the govt busting up Big Tech companies are as much an originalist as is RBG.

[zeestephen]

Re: They’re (Dutch East India Company) still around … don’t kid yourself.

The Spice Girls Reunion?

[ptsal]

Bkmk spice

[sauropod]

bkmk

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Bookmark.

[PapaBear3625]

They’re still around … don’t kid yourself.

What was the Company? It was a way for the merchant upper class to directly exercise ruling power, abandoning the fiction of a sovereign king or parliament.