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FedEx Founder Fred Smith Dies at 80

Supply Chain Digest

Operations began in 1973 with 14 aircraft, and a package hub in Memphis. Deregulation undertaken by Jimmy Carter meant that the federal government no longer had to approve routes and prices for interstate air transportation. Without those constraints, FedEx could afford to buy larger planes and by 1983 had revenue over $1 billion.

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Enabling Innovation Groups To Sell More Effectively to Operations Leaders

ThroughPut

As the founding CEO of a Silicon Valley start-up that evolved first in the operational back-alleys of Houston and Memphis and the trenches of Oil & Gas, Logistics, Transportation, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain, my experience is very different from the usual Silicon Valley fairy tale.

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