There are a handful of still-running for-profit businesses that were founded before 1000, which I consider to good enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of

There are a handful of still-running for-profit businesses that were founded before 1000, which I consider to good enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies There are, of course, religious institutions that are older.