Nicola Romeo

Italian engineer and entrepreneur (1876–1938)

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

The record lists Nicola Romeo as Italian engineer and entrepreneur (1876–1938).

Nicola Romeo was born at Sant'Antimo in 1876. His recorded nationality is Italy. He was educated at University of Naples Federico II.

Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.

He worked as engineer, entrepreneur and businessperson.

His recorded affiliations include Alfa Romeo.

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

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

Nicola Romeo died in 1938, aged 62. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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