Voldemar Puhk built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.
The record lists Voldemar Puhk as Estonian diplomat and entrepreneur (1891-1937).
Voldemar Puhk was born at Viljandi in 1891. His recorded nationality is Russia. He was educated at Riga Alexander Gymnasium.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the corporation became the dominant economic form, along with the antitrust politics that followed it.
He worked as diplomat and entrepreneur.
Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.
That the business was built from Russia shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Voldemar Puhk died in 1937, aged 46. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Educated at Riga Alexander Gymnasium
