Akaki Khoshtaria

Georgian businessman (1873–1932)

In the history of enterprise, Akaki Khoshtaria is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Akaki Khoshtaria as Georgian businessman (1873–1932).

Akaki Khoshtaria was born at Abasha in 1873. His recorded nationality is Georgia.

Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.

He worked as entrepreneur and financier.

Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.

That the business was built from Georgia shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

Akaki Khoshtaria died in 1932, aged 59. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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