[xp84]

I wonder what the largest and most powerful private enterprise the FFs knew about was. I suppose they'd probably heard of the Hudson's Bay Company, but I have no idea how they really felt about the potential that many normal people would feel equal amounts of domination from companies with revenue much larger than most countries' GDP.

[sojournerc]

The Dutch East India Company would've definitely been known, and was huge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company

[kylestlb]

The FFs were literally bourgeois, the american revolution was a bourgeois revolution. They were the big private enterprises, and they wanted to stop giving a cut of their winnings to king george.