I wonder what the largest and most powerful private enterprise the FFs knew about was. I suppose they'd probably heard of the Hudson's Bay Company, but I have no idea how they really felt about the potential that many normal people would feel equal amounts of domination from companies with revenue much larger than most countries' GDP.

The Dutch East India Company would've definitely been known, and was huge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company