Discover the history of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), the true origin of the stock market, IPOs, and the modern megacorporations that inherited its empire.
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Discover how the 17th-century Dutch Tulip Mania became the world's first financial crash, stock market bubble, and derivatives market.
Discover the history of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), the true origin of the stock market, IPOs, and the modern megacorporations that inherited its empire