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0 pointsdanoprey12y ago0 comments

Or the East India Company if you want to go even further back.

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pm9012y ago· 2 in thread

Can you please elaborate? The East India Company never recovered from its episode of near-bankruptcy

sp33212y ago

Not the near-bankruptcy part, just the most-profitable part.

danopreyOP12y ago

Thanks, beat me to it. Which leads me to ask, were IBM near bankrupt before roaring back?

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