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4,000 years of registries and limited risk

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Illustration of a pink cat dressed as an archaeologist with a hat and vest, examining an ancient cuneiform clay tablet inside a broken clay envelope through a magnifying glass.​


If you think company registration, limited liability, and joint-stock investing are modern inventions, you only need to look back 4,000 years to the ancient trade routes of central Anatolia in modern-day Turkey to see they are not. Long before the rise of the industrial age, ancient merchants developed a legally binding, highly structured partnership system that operated almost identically to today's limited partnership (LP).

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