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In the late 1800s, oil tycoon John D Rockefeller invested in railroads and other supporting industries like the Northwest Equipment Co in Minnesota to diversity his wealth beyond oil. In the 1880s, his fortune was so vast it would be like controlling ~$430 billion today, more influence than any present-day billionaire. He was diversifying well before antitrust scrutiny hit, Rockefeller made sure he’d stay rich even if, and eventually when, Standard Oil was broken up in 1911.
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Brutalist Toys “R” Us in Woking, UK. Credit veronicadelica8 on IG
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“I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else” - Abe Lincoln. Born 217 years ago, today.
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"You have to have something powerful for transportation. Purple and red are something you remember. We talked about the feeling we would like people to have on the train. Finally, we coined a phrase that we wanted the cars to be 'conservatively groovy.'" Carolyn Settles, Auto-Train Designer, 1970s (h/t Peter Dibble YT)
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Stock exchanges are so boring compared to this 1600s alternative... The Dojima Rice Exchange in 17th century Japan (aka world’s first futures market) had some crazy quirks: Opening bell? Lame! • Each day, officials lit a cord on fire, and trading continued until it went out. • Price at extinguishment = official closing price. • Still trading after close? Officials dumped water on such traders. Investors gaming the system: • Traders on a hot streak would fan the flame to keep the fire burning longer. • Traders losing money would blow the flame out to end trading.
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Me ending trading after losing it all on 3x Leveraged Rice futures
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29 years I debated whether I could afford to spend $50K to buy the domain name I really wanted for Netflix (replay.com). I decided that was crazy money. Netflix it was. Now they can afford to pay 70 Billion for something. Who woulda thunk.
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Imagine you're an investor in 1610. You and your boys are proud owners of Dutch East India Co. stock, which was granted a monopoly on all Dutch trade in Asia by the government. Bullish. And yet, even after raking in profits since its 1602 IPO, the company refuses to pay a dividend. Stingy. The first activist investor, Isaac Le Maire, starts publicly calling out management for enriching themselves at shareholders' expense and shorts the stock. As momentum builds, management finally agrees to pay out dividends to shareholders. Nice! There's just one catch... It was paid out in spices. Not cash. Shareholders received "mace at a value of 75% of the nominal capital". That's right, the first dividend in history was paid in spices. How far we've come!
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@TickerHistory So what you're saying is everyone is soon going to get NVIDIA chips in the mail and be fractional owners of data center, real estate...
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Citrini@Citrini7·
one of my favorite episodes in financial history. the reason they paid the dividend in spices was to burn short sellers who had to deliver those spices in kind to the people they had sold to. and isaac lemaire was shorting because he wanted to find his own path to the east indies, which he did. and then the dutch government said nah and he died penniless. you can’t arbitrage the government.
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Imagine you're an investor in 1610. You and your boys are proud owners of Dutch East India Co. stock, which was granted a monopoly on all Dutch trade in Asia by the government. Bullish. And yet, even after raking in profits since its 1602 IPO, the company refuses to pay a dividend. Stingy. The first activist investor, Isaac Le Maire, starts publicly calling out management for enriching themselves at shareholders' expense and shorts the stock. As momentum builds, management finally agrees to pay out dividends to shareholders. Nice! There's just one catch... It was paid out in spices. Not cash. Shareholders received "mace at a value of 75% of the nominal capital". That's right, the first dividend in history was paid in spices. How far we've come!

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You deserve a treat. Comment below and we may send you some merch.
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