What Was the Biggest Company in History? - $7.9 Trillion!

In this video we word's richest company in history, the VOC or Duch East India Company.

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[ColdFusion]

Note: All figures are adjusted for inflation of course.

[PepeLePewPew]

Extra Fun fact: The Dutch financed their ships by selling a piece of the ship (virtually) to the people in the NL. when they then came back from their journey and sold all merchandise, the people who had a part of that ship, got a part of the profit. This is actually the beginning of the stock markets as we know it today.

[-Teus-]

Fun fact: In the 17th century, the Netherlands had more ships than the fleets of England, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany combined.

[Obscurai]

Tulips were the bitcoins back in the 1600s.

[MrCTruck]

Fun fact: New York was once called New Amsterdam

[yuhihe]

"The story of Dutch east India company is fascinating"

*Cried in Indonesia*

[somedude]

The biggest company is Jones BBQ and foot massage

[TUHANbukanorangARAB]

"He, who controls the spice, controls the universe."

[viennaalexandria]

Indonesia: exist

Dutch : *G E K O L O N I S E E R D*

[badnewswade]

I thought it would be the East India Company, but... *Dutch* East India Company? Damn! You mean the *British* one was the knockoff?

[farhanyudaputra]

VOC : exists

*Indonesia : we felt that*

[CameronYoungisAwesome]

... why isnt school taught like this? I'd never miss a class.

[dalestarick]

Biggest company in history???
The Catholic Church.

[evaristegalois]

4:30 Wow, can't imagine a publicly traded company doing all of that today. Like, just imagine if Apple decided to create it's own currency, started waging wars and establishing colonies 😂



I hope I didn't just predict the future there ...

[mikeyh]

2008: We never saw anything like this.
1636:: Hold my beer.

[mochamadvitoyanuar]

As indonesian i'm optimist i'll be hired in VOC as employee, wish me luck guys

[ultimatestoryteller]

Tulip bubble happened because their price *rose*

[samsonsoturian]

The Dutch East India's quasi-governmental power wasn't unusual in Europe at the time, as it's true precursors were the trade unions/guilds. One of the larger guilds was the Hessian League in which most Baltic shipping companies were part of and had the largest fleet in that sea and a list of autonomous neighborhoods in various countries. What separates the Dutch East Indies is that both it was a nation sized league, and it was into the newly popularized stocks.

[aseeraj]

Was in the middle of another video. Had to pause to watch this one.

[colsjit]

The Dutch are underrated.. not only did they conquer most of the world (an amazing feat albeit morally questionable) they also built the world's most advanced aquaducts - truly born engineers. Ek is Afrikaans en baie trots op my Nederlandse voorvaders. X