Fred Smith Built a Great American Company. What Made Him Tick?

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Almost every news story about Fred Smith, who died Saturday at the age of 80, began the same way. His idea for the taut, nimble delivery operation that eventually became FedEx was hatched in an economics paper that he wrote as a Yale University undergraduate student. He got a C. Seven…

This story appeared on thefp.com, 2025-06-25 13:35:39.664000.
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