How One Company Invented the Stock Market

How One Company Invented the Stock

Before iPhones and tech stocks, there was the Dutch East India Company. Discover how this single 17th-century trading company (the VOC) pioneered the 'joint-stock' model, unknowingly inventing the world's first stock market. Learn how trading gold, spices, and silk led to the financial systems we use today. This is the surprisingly exciting history of how a massive global operation turned to private citizens for funding and gave birth to modern investing