[2] Eugenio Mendoza was the fourth son of seven children, he had four brothers and two sisters and was the only one who did not pursue a university education, choosing instead to go into business by starting his first company at the age of eighteen.
[citation needed] His business organization, "El Grupo Mendoza" became the largest industrial conglomerate in the 1970s encompassing everything from cement, construction, heavy machinery, paint, paper mills, animal feed, poultry, banking, and insurance to car manufacturing today known as General Motors of Venezuela.
[citation needed] At the age of 34, Eugenio Mendoza was appointed Minister of Industry Promotion [5] during Isaías Medina Angarita’s presidency in Venezuela (1941-1945).
[citation needed] In 1958 was appointed as minister of rear admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal’s cabinet following the overthrow of Marcos Pérez Jiménez on 23 January 1958.
[citation needed] In 1970, he founded the Universidad Metropolitana, a private university located in Caracas, which became the most important passion of his later years.