Overnight Success: Federal Express and Frederick Smith, Its Renegade Creator
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Business & Money
Journalist Vance Trimble tells the story of Frederick Smith and the creation of Federal Express, which made overnight package delivery a standard business service. The book follows Smith from his college paper and Marine service in Vietnam to the launch of FedEx in 1973, its near collapse, the famous blackjack story and its eventual success. Trimble shows Smith's risk-taking and the struggles to finance, regulate and run a new kind of airline.
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- Shane Parrish: “Source for this Outliers episode on Fred Smith: Overnight Success: Federal Express and Frederick Smith, Its Renegade Creator.”