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The East India Company was run almost entirely out of some dude's house with only six employees on staff. By 1700 — 100 years after it was first established — the East India Company had grown its London staff to 35 and had moved into a small office in the English capital. By 1785, the permanent staff in its home office had risen to 159.It was a corporation that was ultimately responsible for the deaths of millions of people, and it was managed from far, far away by no more than 159 people.Source
