Frederik Johannes Diederik "Frits" Goldschmeding (2 August 1933 – 26 July 2024) was a Dutch billionaire businessman, founder of

Randstad NV Randstad NV, commonly known as Randstad and stylized as randstad, is a Dutch multinational human resource consulting firm headquartered in Diemen, Netherlands. Along with Adecco, the company is one of the two largest staffing firms worldwide. ...

, one of the largest staffing companies worldwide.

Early life

Goldschmeding was born on 2 August 1933 as Frederik Johannes Diederik Goldschmeding. He had a doctorate from

VU University Amsterdam The (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the othe ...

Career

Goldschmeding founded Uitzendbureau Amstelveen (later Randstad) with fellow economics student Ger Daleboudt in 1960, while studying at Amsterdam's Vrije University. The two came up with the idea for the business as they were cycling back from a fraternity party at 2:00 a.m. They established their first office in their dorm room. In 1964, they renamed it

. Goldschmeding took Randstad public in 1990, and in 2008, merged it with the Dutch group Vedior. According to ''

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'', Goldschmeding had a 35% stake in the company, and a net worth of US$5.8 billion, as of July 2024. He was also a professor at the Centre for Entrepreneurship at

Nyenrode Business University Nyenrode Business Universiteit (abbreviated as ''NBU''; ) is a Dutch business university and the only private higher education institution that has the university status in the Netherlands. Founded in 1946, it is located on a large estate in the ...

Personal life and death

Married with three children, Goldschmeding lived in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He died on 26 July 2024, at the age of 90.

References

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Early life

Career

Personal life and death

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