captain of industry

noun phrase

: someone who owns or manages a large, successful business or company

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Some might argue that an age defining innovation is a higher calling or being a captain of industry is a higher calling, or just being a simple CEO employing tens of thousands of people is a higher calling. —

CBS News, 29 Dec. 2024 The captain of industry saving Ecuador’s cloud forest Courtesy Roque Sevilla When Roque Sevilla, the former mayor of Quito, told me about his entrepreneurial journey from setting up an insurance company to saving Ecuador’s forests, I was blown away. —

Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Apr. 2024 Bertha’s husband, George (Morgan Spector) battles his unionizing workers in a conceit extending the show’s long track record of trying to make George both a ruthless captain of industry — the kind that might pitilessly drive a man to suicide — but also (maybe?) a good man. —

Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023

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