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Founder and long-serving chairman of FedEx Corporation
United States · 1944–2025
Frederick W. Smith was an American businessman who founded Federal Express in 1971 after serving two tours in Vietnam as a Marine officer. He built the company into the world's largest express transportation network and led it as chairman and chief executive for five decades.
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I was a student at Yale and wrote a paper about the computerized society that was on the horizon. ... Then I sort of let that lie. I didn’t get a particularly good grade on it, as I recall.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 23 May 1998 source ↗
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