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FedEx was founded to operationalize a business concept its founder had previously dismissed in writing. In what decade was FedEx founded?
Answer
1970s
Fred Smith founded Federal Express in 1971 and launched operations in 1973, making the 1970s the founding decade. The company's hub-and-spoke overnight delivery model eventually transformed global logistics despite Smith's own earlier skepticism.
💡 Did you know?
FedEx founder Fred Smith wrote a paper predicting overnight delivery would fail, then built the company anyway to prove himself wrong.
Other options people guess
- 1950s
- 1960s
- 1980s
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- fedex
- business-history
- logistics
- 1970s
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