Simón Isidoro Patiño is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.
The record lists Simón Isidoro Patiño as Bolivian businessperson (1860-1947).
Simón Isidoro Patiño was born at Cochabamba in 1860. His recorded nationality is Bolivia.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as entrepreneur, businessperson and politician.
What a company leaves behind is usually infrastructure, habit and employment rather than a name.
That the business was built from Bolivia shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Simón Isidoro Patiño died in 1947, aged 87. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
