Jamestown: A Corporate Trip Gone Wrong
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The United States basically started as a corporate business trip that went horribly wrong.
On December 20, 1606, three tiny ships left London, not filled with
families looking for freedom, but with guys looking for gold. The Virginia Company
sent them to get rich quick, but they had no idea what they were doing.
They packed heavy wool for the humid Virginia swamp and drank brackish water that gave them salt
poisoning. It was a nightmare. They faced mutiny, shipwrecks, and the infamous
Starving Time where they had to eat rats just to survive. They never found a single nugget
of gold. Instead, they pivoted to growing tobacco, which actually saved
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