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From a 17th-century trading company to Amazon, 25 companies that shaped capitalism

The company that invented the modern stock, the one that invented the assembly line, the ones that turned failure into financial regulation — the 25 companies whose specific innovations built the economic system the rest of the world now runs on

From a 17th-century trading company to Amazon, 25 companies that shaped capitalism

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