The World's First Corporate Psychopath May Have Just Been Identified — Live Feedhttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/the-world-s-first-corporate-psychopath-may-have-just-been-identifiedContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. Scientists Identify History's First Corporate Psychopathhttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/the-world-s-first-corporate-psychopath-may-have-just-been-identifiedhttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/the-world-s-first-corporate-psychopath-may-have-just-been-identified#u163098Fri, 30 Oct 2026 07:40:54 +0000Researchers have identified history's first official corporate psychopath as Jeronimus Cornelisz, a 17th-century merchant manager for the Dutch East India Company. A new study links toxic executive traits to the earliest days of global capitalism four hundred years ago. Cornelisz oversaw the murders of one hundred men, women, and children after a shipwreck, and attempted to build a pirate empire on an isolated island. The findings suggest that predatory personalities have been drawn to multinational corporations since the inception of modern trade.Why it mattersThe research connects moder