The Rise And Fall of the Dutch East India Company

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The impact of the Dutch East India company is really insane, it's probably been more impactful than most countries

"Dutch Spice & Genocide" - I almost choked on my lunch!

It's wild how the VOC paved the way for modern businesses. Shareholders, corporate governance—it's all stuff we take for granted now, but back then, it was revolutionary.

This is the first time in like, a decade that I look at YouTube comments, and oh boy, it's just spam bots and a couple of real people. What the hell is happening?

Wtf 2 days ago. Im playing The Netherlands on EU4 this week and obviously I've been recreating the VOC, so I wanted to learn more. How serendipitous.

For the graph at 1:43, the Suez Canal wasn't around yet so how did they avoid going around Africa?

Thanks for the great video and all of the awesome content!!

Great content as always!

If a shareholder is very active, e.g. Carl Icahn or Warren Buffet, then there certainly is the possibility of shareholders steering the ship. Otherwise, as in the case of most retail investors, the shares never vote, and the suits control everything.

All these explanations about VOC and not a single mention of Indonesia, which they plundered for more than a century.

Nice

Is Isaac a typical Dutch name?

So this is a video just reading the wikipedia page? okay.

First time watcher! And going to keep watching, love learning. I know it was a small thing compared to Al the other info BUT, .50 a day?! Ouch! I know it was different times but, STILL!

love the video map at 146 has kolkata in modern day Laos (?) regardless it is ion the west coast of india closer to colombo than dushanbe. Regardless, really appreciate the high quality video!

I know the English like to pretend they were of huge importance in the 17th century, but the founding of the VOC was all about the 80-year for independence with Spain and Portugal. The English were just in the way sometimes later on but they were not out to destroy the Dutch Republic and it's religious freedom like the Spanish and Portuguese, nor could they rival the Dutch in trade. The VOC soon saw more opportunity than initially anticipated and didn't want to pay dividends but reinvest the profits in growth. That's why the stock market had to be founded so the poor shareholders could get ROI through selling their shares to rich merchants out to build generational wealth. The VOC didn't pay dividends for the first 31 years of it's existence. And what is with this 7.9 billion? Why are you regurgitating a bogus calculation by an obscure Canadian media company? The VOC didn't dominate global trade, it only had a Dutch monopoly East of the Cape and did most of it's trade within Asia, and a lot more than spices. The European trade was dominated by the independent Dutch merchants with 100 times more ships than the VOC, trading much more frequently. Even the good old herring fishery of the Dutch remained more profitable than peak VOC.

Welp duh which Mitsi Studio made video about VOC. BTW please make video(s) about mercenaries then PMCs in the future?

Can you do a video about how periods of extreme income inequality ended over time?

1:18 that hurts, but at least you tried ! 👌