FedEx, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where FedEx comes up
Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgment [Outliers]
- ▶ 2:36 Shane Parrish Munger's favorite example of getting the incentives right is Federal Express. 6 times in the scene
Fred Smith: The Story of FedEx [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:11 Shane Parrish Literally the entire bank account of FedEx. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42 Shane Parrish Fred Smith built FedEx from a college term paper that got a C. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:46 Shane Parrish This was the idea, the seed of the idea for what would eventually become FedEx. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:07 Shane Parrish Vietnam taught him the principles that would define FedEx. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:48 Shane Parrish When Fred Smith returned from Vietnam in July of 1969, he didn't go straight into building FedEx. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:10 Shane Parrish So on April, 1719, 73, after two years of preparation, federal express was finally ready to launch. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:26 Shane Parrish So Smith created the Federal Express credo. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:30 Shane Parrish This constant intake of information convinced Smith that Federal Express needed to evolve or die. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:47 Shane Parrish By 1988 Federal Express owned 45% of the U.S. overnight market, but Smith saw a threat nobody else did. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:18 Shane Parrish FedEx would be the bridge between markets and not the owner of every truck. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:57 Shane Parrish So the first thing that didn't make it into the episode, we talked about how Federal Express got its name because it was originally for the Federal Reserve System, although that didn't work out, but that was the intent. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:46 Shane Parrish FedEx switched to paying by the shift. 9 times in the scene
David Heacock: Building Filterbuy
- ▶ 11:00 David Heacock Third-party sellers from sending products into their warehouses, and at the exact same time, FedEx made the decision to cap the number of trailers that we were able to ship from our Talladega location because they were getting overloaded,… 3 times in the scene
Timothy Eaton: How to Build an Empire (And Why It Crumbled) [Outliers]
- ▶ 19:36 Shane Parrish Before FedEx existed, Eaton's had built a delivery network so reliable that Canadian towns planned their mail service around it.
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 49:23 Alfred Lin We, we decided to work very, very closely with UPS in particular, and then FedEx and USPS to figure out how to get, um, the shipping rates as low as possible.