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FedEx founder Fred Smith dies at 80

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FedEx founder Fred Smith died on Saturday. He was 80.

Smith was worth an estimated $5 billion at the time of his death.

Smith reportedly came up with the idea for FedEx in a paper he wrote as a Yale University undergrad student in 1965.

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