Jobst Wagner

Swiss entrepreneur

Jobst Wagner built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.

The record lists Jobst Wagner as Swiss entrepreneur.

Jobst Wagner was born at Rehau in 1959. His recorded nationality is Switzerland.

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

He worked as entrepreneur and jurist.

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

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

Jobst Wagner is still active, and the verdict on the career has not been reached.

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