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Speaker 2: Give me that news quickie. This is a story from
Speaker 2: the weekend as we have had a death Fred Smith
Speaker 2: that at the edge of eighty one. I'm sorry eighty
Speaker 2: Fred Smith is the guy who founded FedEx. Do you
Speaker 2: know anything about this guy?
Speaker 1: Is?
Speaker 2: Uh? He hired Tom Hanks and then Tom Hanks crashed.
Speaker 2: That's what reference. Yeah, you saw the last twenty minutes of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good movie. I like those twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: Fred Smith, by the way, yes, ten kids. One of
Speaker 2: his sons is former Falcons head coach current Pittsburgh Steelers
Speaker 2: offensive coordinator Arthur Smith. So a tough year for Arthur
Speaker 2: Smith as his dad died and now he's got to
Speaker 2: deal with Aaron Rodgers. Fred Smith. Fedix obviously huge, but
Speaker 2: kind of a wild story. FedEx would not be around
Speaker 2: if it wasn't for some good luck from old fred Smith,
Speaker 2: because in nineteen seventy three, that's when they launched, but
Speaker 2: they didn't have a lot of money. In fact, they
Speaker 2: were running out of money and one investor meeting had
Speaker 2: gone so poorly that he hopped on a plane with
Speaker 2: the remaining five thousand dollars that the company had and
Speaker 2: played blackjack. God, this guy's a hero, and he came
Speaker 2: home from Las Vegas with twenty seven thousand dollars, So
Speaker 2: five thousand down twenty seven thousand dollars back, and it
Speaker 2: was enough to keep the company going for another couple weeks,
Speaker 2: and then they raised enough money.
Speaker 1: He's the Everly Jones of shipping. God. She did say
Speaker 1: she put five grand on a hand, right, yeah, and
Speaker 1: which means it's probably ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, now it is illegal to take company funds
Speaker 2: and go gambling with that, But in nineteen seventy three you're.
Speaker 1: Not frowned upon.
Speaker 2: But I question that too much.
Speaker 1: I don't know that there were rules in nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 1: Were there? I don't think so.
Speaker 2: For anything, I don't really think there were. Honestly, it's
Speaker 2: now a fifty billion dollar company, so they've done well,
Speaker 2: doing pretty good. Now, there's nothing I was thinking about
Speaker 2: some other companies who had good luck. Zoom had such
Speaker 2: good luck. I mean, Covid was so good for Zoom.
Speaker 2: We were still talking about skyping. We were talking about well,
Speaker 2: that's really the two I guess, yeah, But there were
Speaker 2: all the onse who were trying to get out there.
Speaker 2: Zoom without the pandemic. I don't know what they are, dude,
Speaker 2: Microsoft without IBM, there is no Microsoft. I was saying
Speaker 2: about Twitter. Twitter's there's a side product project from some bros.
Speaker 2: You know, And then all of a sudden, Oh, the
Speaker 2: Internet is starting to take off and people are fund
Speaker 2: to bike, social Facebook happens, Oh we can do a
Speaker 2: little more with that. You're just all good luck, and
Speaker 2: that's really good, but no better luck than winning at
Speaker 2: black jack. Was such a fun game. But to come
Speaker 2: out of that up twenty two k to keep the
Speaker 2: company going. You're our celebrity death of the way.
Speaker 1: That's great man.
Speaker 2: Sorry to Ralph Mick of a bad Company at the
Speaker 2: age of eighty one who died. Fred Smith is our
Speaker 2: celebrity death of the week.
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