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#151 Frederick Smith (FedEx)

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Overcoming Adversity: The Early Struggles of FedEx

This chapter explores the early challenges faced by FedEx and its founder, including financial crises and a dramatic hostage situation linked to unpaid wages. It emphasizes the resilience and innovative problem-solving that eventually led to the company's success by the late 1970s.

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