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  1. Mar 27, 2024 · Love him or hate him, Charles Ranlett Flint‘s impact on American capitalism continues reverberating today each time we click, swipe or tap technology birthed from his legacy creation IBM. And that‘s not even considering the untold billions in wealth generated over decades by successor organizations to U.S. Rubber and American Chicle.

  2. Somehow, in 1914, he nevertheless persuaded an unreconstructed trust-builder named Charles Ranlett Flint to hire him to try to save a rickety business-machine trust that Flint had assembled in 1911.

  3. In 1868, Charles Flint graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, and in 1871 entered the shipping business as a partner in Gilchrest, Flint & Co., and later W.R. Grace & Co. after a merger. From 1876 to 1879, he served as the Chilean consul at New York City.

  4. Dec 7, 2019 · About the Founder. Charles Ranlett Flint was born in 1850 in Maine. The family soon moved to New York, where his father worked as the manager of a firm called Chapman & Flint. The family was business was set up in 1837, and served as a mercantile firm dealing in loans and fiscal help. Flint finished his graduation from the Brooklyn Polytechnic ...

  5. Charles Ranlett Flint (January 24, 1850 – February 26, 1934) was the founder of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company which later became IBM. For his financial dealings, he earned the moniker "Father of Trusts".

  6. Charles Ranlegh Flint, the "Father of Trusts," founded the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in 1911 upon the acquisition and merger of three manufacturers of such products as shopkeepers' scales, punch clocks, and large tabulating machines used by the census bureau. Flint hired Thomas J. Watson, Sr. to run his new company.

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  8. Jul 11, 2020 · Charles Ranlett Flint was an American businessman who is considered as one of the world’s most famous serial entrepreneurs. Born in the State of Maine on January 24, 1850, he founded Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company which later became International Business Machine (IBM) Company.

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