The Great Granddaddy of All Modern Corporations

For most of human history, there as nothing that you would want to do that would require more than a couple of rich people working together in order to provide the funding. The great granddaddy of all modern corporations was the dutch east india company first formed in 16 o two. It was a chartered company, so basically a bunch of people who didn't know each other, all paid in so they'd get a share of the profits from this business. And its business was achieving a monopoly on all the spices that came from india and southeast asia.