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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".
The technology icon’s core values, philosophies and culture date back to the merger of three companies at the turn of the 20th century. In June of 1911, a financier and businessman named Charles Ranlett Flint put the finishing touches on a fateful merger.
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...
1934 February 26. Gender: Male. Noted For: Founder of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company which would later become IBM. Category of Achievement: Business Entrepreneur.
A founding philosophy. Watson takes THINK to C-T-R and then IBM. When Watson was recruited by Charles Ranlett Flint in 1914 to join the Computing-Tabulating Recording Company, the precursor to IBM, the company had been badly underperforming expectations.
Mar 27, 2024 · The American industrialist Charles Ranlett Flint pioneered the corporate "trust" model at the turn of the 20th century, orchestrating sweeping consolidations across shipping, rubber, chewing gum and office technology firms.
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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".
