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a self-made empire wearing a person, allergic to the word enough.
means A tycoon is a person who has amassed enormous wealth and power in business, usually wielding outsized influence in their industry.
from This one sailed in from Japan. "Taikun" (大君) meant "great lord" — a title foreign visitors used for the shogun in the mid-1800s, dressing him up as Japan's de facto ruler. American sailors brought it home, and it quickly got pressed into service as slang for any big-shot of business or politics. The Japanese itself borrows from Chinese roots: "dai/tai" (great) plus "kun" (lord, prince). So the word literally carried imperial swagger before it ever meant a railroad baron.
- japanese roots
- From taikun, a title for the shogun
- first usage
- Lincoln's cabinet nicknamed him the Tycoon
- oil baron
- Rockefeller became history's first billionaire in 1916
- game genre
- Inspired countless sim games of obsessive empire-building
andrew carnegie — built us steel empire, sold company for $480 million in 1901
elon musk — founded tesla, spacex, neuralink; net worth exceeded $200 billion in 2021
jack ma — founded alibaba, made $35+ billion fortune transforming chinese e-commerce