In the history of enterprise, Jakub Krčín is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Jakub Krčín as Bohemian fish farmer.
Jakub Krčín was born at Kolín in 1535. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Bohemia.
Commerce then ran on personal credit, family networks and letters that took weeks to arrive; trust was the scarcest asset.
He worked as architect, entrepreneur and pond maker.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
That the business was built from Kingdom of Bohemia shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Jakub Krčín died in 1604, aged 69. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
