Charles R. Schwab

American entrepreneur

Charles R. Schwab built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.

The record lists Charles R. Schwab as American entrepreneur.

Charles R. Schwab was born at Sacramento in 1937. His recorded nationality is United States. He was educated at Stanford University and Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.

He worked as businessperson and entrepreneur.

Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.

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

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