Swedish industrialist and brother of Alfred and Ludvig Nobel — who traveled to Baku to purchase walnut wood for rifle stocks and inadvertently discovered the oil fields that would become the foundation of the Nobel oil empire.
Accidentally discovered the Baku oil opportunity while on a different mission entirely — demonstrating the role of serendipity and opportunistic pivoting in great entrepreneurial stories — and brought the information to brother Ludvig who had the operational genius to exploit it.
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