If SpaceX is able to realize its ambitions, I think it could certainly be a modern-day East India Company [0,1], if not more influential. [0]: https://en.wikip

If SpaceX is able to realize its ambitions, I think it could certainly be a modern-day East India Company [0,1], if not more influential. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company [1]: Some sources have estimated that, adjusted for inflation, the East India Company would have had an equivalent market cap of $7.6 trillion.