Fred Smith Was Told By Yale Professor That His Overnight-Delivery Idea Would Only Earn Him A ‘C’ — The FedEx Founder Turned It Into A $54 Billion Logistics Giant | Official Website of Louis Velazquez, entrepreneur, finance guy and tech innovator

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Fred Smith Was Told By Yale Professor That His Overnight-Delivery Idea Would Only Earn Him A ‘C’ — The FedEx Founder Turned It Into A $54 Billion Logistics Giant

Fred Smith’s ‘C’ paper at Yale inspired him to launch FedEx, proving skeptics wrong. Other successful dropouts include Gates, Musk, Branson, and Zuckerberg.

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