In the history of enterprise, Diego Portales Palazuelo is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Diego Portales Palazuelo as Chilean businessman, conservative politician and admiral (1793-1837).
Diego Portales Palazuelo was born at Santiago in 1793. His recorded nationality is Chile. He was educated at Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera and Convictorio Carolino.
This was the age of chartered companies and long-distance trade, when a single voyage could make or ruin a house.
He worked as entrepreneur, politician and diplomat.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
That the business was built from Chile shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Diego Portales Palazuelo died in 1837, aged 44. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Educated at Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera and Convictorio Carolino
