Shibusawa Eiichi

Shibusawa helped found around 500 companies in the Meiji era, including Japan's first modern bank and stock exchange, but refused to build a family conglomerate of his own. His idea, set out in his book on the Analects and the abacus, was that profit should serve public good and that businesses should be joint-stock companies open to outside investors. He died in 1931 and appears on Japan's 10,000-yen note.