Margarita Louis-Dreyfus built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.
The record lists Margarita Louis-Dreyfus as Swiss businessperson of Russian origin, heiress, billionaire.
Margarita Louis-Dreyfus was born at Saint Petersburg in 1962. Her recorded nationality is Switzerland.
Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.
She 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 Switzerland shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Margarita Louis-Dreyfus is still active, and the verdict on the career has not been reached.
