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by danoprey 4518 days ago
Or the East India Company if you want to go even further back.
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Can you please elaborate? The East India Company never recovered from its episode of near-bankruptcy
Not the near-bankruptcy part, just the most-profitable part.
Thanks, beat me to it. Which leads me to ask, were IBM near bankrupt before roaring back?