Leonardo Salvador Sarao (13 April 1921 to 31 July 2001) was the founder and owner of Sarao Motors, a company known for designing, manufacturing and selling the jeepney, the most popular mode of transportation in the Philippines. Wikipedia says he was not the first person to alter the surplus jeeps left behind by the United States Army after the Second World War, but that he saw them as a business opportunity for mass transportation. He redesigned them with an extended body to carry at least twice the number of passengers, with railings at the back and top for extra passengers and cargo. He started Sarao Motors from a borrowed 700 pesos and, despite reaching only Grade 6 because of poverty, grew it into a multimillion peso company. He received The Outstanding Filipino Award (TOFIL) for Entrepreneurship in 1991.
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Sarao Motors was established in 1953 by Leonardo Sarao
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