In the history of enterprise, Johann Jakob Sulzer is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Johann Jakob Sulzer as Swiss industrialist and politician (1821-1897).
Johann Jakob Sulzer was born at Winterthur in 1821. His recorded nationality is Switzerland.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as politician, entrepreneur and writer.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
That the business was built from Switzerland shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Johann Jakob Sulzer died in 1897, aged 76. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
