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Entrepreneurs Who Turned Politicans
Fremont: While businessmen run companies, technocrats run bureaucracies and politicians run governments, sometimes they cross-over roles. There are few entrepreneurs who switched their career from business to politics. Below mentioned are five such famous entrepreneurs who followed the path from being an entrepreneur to a famous politician.
Silvio Berlusconi
The Italian politician and businessman, Silvio Berlusconi served three terms as the Prime Minister of Italy. He is also the controlling shareholder of Mediaset and woner of A.C. Milan. Berlusconi is the longest-serving post-war Prime Minister of Italy.
His business career began in construction early in the 1960s. After a couple of successful projects, in the late 1960s he carried out the construction of Milano Due, a huge residential project of about 10,500 apartments that he eventually built in Segrate. Berlusconi entered the media world in 1973 by setting up a small cable television company ‘Telmilano”. He also founded his first media group in 1978 ‘Fininvest’ and joined the Propaganda Due Masonic lodge. He entered politics by founding his party Forza Italia. The political family of the European People’s Party was joined by Forza Italia in 1999 and by the People of Freedom in 2009.
