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businessperson

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Also known as business person, dealer, businesswoman, business man, business woman, businessman, businesspeople, business people

A businessperson, also referred to as a businessman or businesswoman, is an individual who has founded, owns, or holds shares in (including as an angel investor) a private-sector company. A businessperson undertakes activities (commercial or industrial) to generate cash flow, sales, and revenue by using a combination of human, financial, intellectual, and physical capital to fuel economic development and growth.

AI overview

A businessperson is someone who owns, founded, or invests in a private-sector company and works to generate profit and revenue by combining various resources like money, people, ideas, and equipment. Businesspeople matter because their activities create jobs, drive economic growth, and generate the sales and cash flow that fuel broader economic development.

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Occupation.name
Businessperson
Occupation.image
BG Group-CNOOC signing ceremony in Brisbane hosted by QGC (8712724787).jpg
Occupation.caption
CNOOC Group Chairman Wang Yilin (left) shaking hands with BG Group CEO Chris Finlayson in 2013
Occupation.type
Business
Occupation.activity_sector
Private
Occupation.formation
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Wikidata facts

Subclass of
worker
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female form of label
mujer de negocios
male form of label
صاحب بيزنيس
partially coincident with
entrepreneur
Unicode character
💼
category for eponymous categories
Category:Wikipedia categories named after businesspeople
Commons category
Businesspeople
topic's main category
Category:Businesspeople
different from
business manager
described by source
Gujin Tushu Jicheng
narrower external class
www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p6407
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for P106, consider replacing with a more specific occupation if appropriate (e.g. merchant, banker, media executive)
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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Medieval period: Rise of the merchant class
  • Renaissance to Enlightenment: Rise of the capitalist
  • Modern period: Rise of the business magnate
  • Salary
  • Entrepreneurship
  • See also
  • References

A businessperson, also referred to as a businessman or businesswoman, is an individual who has founded, owns, or holds shares in (including as an angel investor) a private-sector company. A businessperson undertakes activities (commercial or industrial) to generate cash flow, sales, and revenue by using a combination of human, financial, intellectual, and physical capital to fuel economic development and growth.

== History == === Medieval period: Rise of the merchant class === Merchants emerged as a social class in medieval Italy. Between 1300 and 1500, modern accounting, the bill of exchange, and limited liability were invented, and thus, the world saw "the first true bankers", who were certainly businesspeople.

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