Comparing valuations across the years never really works. Of course they were worth more. The East India basically owned the Indian subcontinent, which today or then was incalculable wealth.
Parent is referring to the Dutch VOC, not the British East India Company.
The entity that eventually "owned" the Indian Subcontinent was the British East India Company. The VOC ended up with Indonesia, swaths of land in South America, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and so on.
Ok. They all owned huge chunks of the globe, in as much as ownership was allowed by their European masters. Their worth cannot be translated into modern money. Interestingly, one of these companies is still around. The Hudson's Bay company once owned the entire middle of canada. Now they sell jeans.
I would be more interested in knowing we’re the wealth of the Hudson’s Bay Company actually ended up. Presumably someone’s great-great-granddad was a big muckety-muck at the HBC and that’s why today the family owns two skyscrapers in Toronto, yea?
