THE 100-YEAR TECH COMPANIES

10 traits of Tech companies that outlive empires

In fast-moving tech markets, the biggest competitive edge is not speed but staying power. The 100 Year Tech Companies uncovers how a small circle of firms such as Nokia Siemens, IBM, Nintendo, Saint Gobain, and Ericsson. These companies possesses a strong market position in the technology sector, outlasting empires and repeated upheavals while still shaping each new era. Drawing on boardroom interviews, primary archives, and his decades inside the telecom industry, Sebastián Barros traces the decisive choices that let these organisations survive wars, depressions, and disruptive waves from telegraph cables to artificial intelligence.

Each chapter tells a vivid story. A Finnish paper mill becomes a global 5G pioneer. A seventeenth-century glassworks invents materials for Mars missions. A Kyoto card maker reinvents play first with toys, then with video games. Across these narratives, Barros isolates ten habits that weave purpose-led identity, financial patience, disciplined innovation, and a cultivated crisis muscle into a single resilient fabric.

The book speaks to founders chasing durable advantage, executives guiding mature companies through digital change, investors seeking signals of true moat and readers who simply enjoy a good corporate survival tale. It combines historical drama with actionable strategy, showing that longevity is not luck but an operating system that can be learned.

The 100-Year Tech Companies offers something rare in business literature. It delivers a roadmap for creating organizations that do more than launch products or win quarters. They learn, regenerate, and thrive across generations. In an age obsessed with blitz scaling, this book makes the case that the boldest act is to build something that lasts.