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King Camp Gillette

Also Known As King C. Gillette
Founder and Executive

An American inventor and businessman who patented the disposable blade safety razor and founded the American Safety Razor Company in Boston in 1901, renamed the Gillette Safety Razor Company in 1904 after his patent was granted. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Date
1855-01-05 1
Birth Year
1855 2
Death Date
1932-07-09 1
Death Year
1932 2
Birthplace
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, U.S. 2
Death Place
Los Angeles, California, U.S. 1
Nationality
American 2
Defining Contribution
Invented the disposable blade safety razor and founded the American Safety Razor Company, later renamed Gillette, in 1901. 2
Notable Work
Double-edged safety razor 1
King Camp Gillette
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The Gillette Company

King Camp Gillette
Connections

Associated With

Entrepreneurship, Practice Disciplines

King Camp Gillette founded the Gillette Safety Razor Company in 1901, pioneering the razor-and-blades business model that became a foundational case study in entrepreneurial pricing strategy.

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Razor-and-Blades Model, Business Models

Gillette invented and commercialized the disposable-blade razor, the textbook originating case of the razor-and-blades pricing model.

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William Nickerson, Founders, Executives and Management Thinkers

Nickerson, an MIT-trained engineer, solved the manufacturing problem for Gillette's disposable blade and became his business partner in founding the American Safety Razor (later Gillette) Company.

Source Wikipedia, The Gillette Company

Companies Founded

The Gillette Company, Companies and Brands

Invented the disposable-blade safety razor and founded the American Safety Razor Company, later Gillette, in 1901.

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Companies Led

The Gillette Company, Companies and Brands

Gillette founded the company in 1901 and served as its first president.

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Disputed

Razor-and-Blades Model, Business Models

Why this is corrected. Popular attribution credits Gillette with deliberately selling razors cheap to sell blades. The documented record disputes this: Gillette razors were priced high when introduced, and it was competitors, after his patents expired in the 1920s, who actually applied the razor-and-blades pattern now named for him.

Source Wikipedia, Razor and Blades Business Model
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1. Wikipedia, King C. Gillette
  • Infobox, known_for
    Inventing the double-edged safety razor
  • Infobox, name
    King C. Gillette
  • Infobox, death_place
    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
  • Infobox, birth_date
    1855-01-05
  • Infobox, death_date
    1932-07-09
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2. Wikipedia, King Camp Gillette
Wikipedia
  • lead section
    King Camp Gillette was an American businessman who invented the disposable safety razor blade.
  • infobox
  • Companies Led: The Gillette Company
  • Associated With: Entrepreneurship
  • Associated With: Razor-and-Blades Model
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Wikipedia, The Gillette Company
WikipediaAssociated With: William NickersonView the Source
Wikipedia, Razor and Blades Business Model
WikipediaTheories and Models Developed: Razor-and-Blades ModelView the Source

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