An essay · History and entrepreneurship
San Martín The Great Latin American Entrepreneur
What the liberator can teach twenty-first-century founders.
What do San Martín, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the founders of Anthropic have in common? They all pursued projects that the consensus considered impossible. They all built networks before they needed them. They all failed tactically and learned. And all of them—the best of them—knew when to step aside.
In this book, Christian Ruggeri examines Latin America’s most extraordinary liberator through the lens of modern entrepreneurship, revealing how the principles that crossed the Andes in 1817 are the same ones behind the most important companies of the twenty-first century.
Convinced that the best models of leadership are not found exclusively in Silicon Valley, Ruggeri sets out to show that San Martín was—and remains—the greatest entrepreneur the continent has produced.
The network before the product. The mission before the ego. The legacy before the spotlight.