Kōnosuke Matsushita

Matsushita founded the company that became Panasonic in 1918 making electrical sockets, and in 1932 announced a 250-year mission to make goods as cheap and plentiful as tap water. He divided the company into semi-independent divisions in 1933, paired a wide dealer network with mass production, and founded a school to train future politicians. His later years saw the company grow slower and more bureaucratic. He died in 1989.