How many businessmen do you know that have been summoned by very powerful people to help fix their country's problems?
To Da Vinci it happened several times, he spoke and had relations with some of the most powerful people of his time: Medici, Sforza, Borgia, Francis I (king of France) and for each one of them he designed and often built infrastructures for their cities.
Even the Sultan of the ottoman empire Bayezid II asked Leonardo to design a bridge for him, in 1502
It would have been the longest bridge in the world at the times, MIT tests proved his project was solid and centuries ahead of times, in 2011 Norway built a bridge based on that design and Instanbul Is thinking about it as well.
So, all in all, he wasn't so bad at doing business.
It would have been better had I said his performance isn't as impressive.
Whether he had business acumen wasn't really my point. But it's obvious his business acumen isn't his legacy. His amazing art, brilliant ideas, and diversity of ideas is his legacy.
To Da Vinci it happened several times, he spoke and had relations with some of the most powerful people of his time: Medici, Sforza, Borgia, Francis I (king of France) and for each one of them he designed and often built infrastructures for their cities.
Even the Sultan of the ottoman empire Bayezid II asked Leonardo to design a bridge for him, in 1502
It would have been the longest bridge in the world at the times, MIT tests proved his project was solid and centuries ahead of times, in 2011 Norway built a bridge based on that design and Instanbul Is thinking about it as well.
So, all in all, he wasn't so bad at doing business.