FedEx: From a Grade C Undergraduate Term Paper to a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
The story of FedEx—how it began, its growth, and the takeaways
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6 min readMar 27, 2021
In 1965, an undergraduate student at Yale University wrote a term paper. This paper would change the world and revolutionize an entire industry. The name of that student was Frederick W. Smith.
