Konosuke Matsushita

Konosuke Matsushita is the founder of Panasonic, originally establishing Matsushita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works in 1918. He is best known for building Panasonic into one of the world's largest consumer electronics companies and for his management philosophy, which earned him the title "God of Management" in Japan. He was born in 1894 in Wakayama, Japan, and was apprenticed in Osaka at age nine after his family lost their property, effectively leaving him to fend for himself from a young age. He died in April 1989 at the age of 94.