Until 2020 (starting from 2006), the English Wikipedia’s article for the South Sea Company claimed that: Among the many companies to go public in 1720 is - famously - one that advertised itself as “a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is”. I was curious as to whether anything ever came of this company (whose name is not specified), but a Google search yielded no real further information on the company. Was this just another company in ...| Recent Questions - History Stack Exchange