Most Valuable Companies in History 1300-2026 | 700 Years of Giants

In 1300 the biggest companies on Earth were banks in Florence: the Bardi company had some 150,000 gold florins of capital - about $240,000. Today Nvidia is worth more than $5 trillion. Watch 700 years of the world's biggest companies - the Medici Bank, the Fuggers who bought an emperor, trading empires built on conquest and the slave trade, stock-market bubbles, banks, railways, oil, telephones, computers and AI. And why BlackRock and Vanguard, with trillions under management, are not in the ranking. #history #business #statistics