East India Company
Described as a powerful, quasi-national corporation that extracted vast wealth from India to fuel Britain's industrial revolution.
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Secret History #25: Capital of Evil
Predictive History
Described as a powerful, quasi-national corporation that extracted vast wealth from India to fuel Britain's industrial revolution.
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All-In Podcast
Used as a historical example of a dominant company, in a discussion about whether monopolies should be broken up.
Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space | Conversations with Tyler
Conversations with Tyler
A historical trading company that wielded significant power. It's used as an analogy for how a powerful corporation could effectively rule a colony, though Weir notes the Kenyan Space Corporation in his novel is far more benign.
Everything You Know is About to Collapse - David Friedberg
Chris Williamson
Historical trading company used as an analogy for the potential scale and economic impact of a future lunar economy, suggesting it could be unexpectedly large.
Peterson Academy | Dr. Charles Calomiris | The History of Financial Crises | Lecture 1 (Official)
Peterson Academy
An example of a company granted monopoly rights by a sovereign to organize trade with a certain region in the early modern era.
How to Overcome Social Anxiety | Dr. Nick Epley
Andrew Huberman
Historical corporation able to conduct global trade by pooling resources and spreading risk.
Stanford MS&E435 Economics of the AI Supercycle | Spring 2026 | Applications, Applied AI
Stanford Online
A historical trading company used as an analogy to describe the risk of large frontier model labs extracting valuable data and user signals from partner companies, potentially leading to them dominating the market.