Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTIL that in the early days of Fed-Ex, there was one time the company couldn't afford the fuel bill for their planes, so the founder took the company's last $5,000 and went to Las Vegas and won $27,000en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1477arrow-down124cross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.online
arrow-up1453arrow-down1external-linkTIL that in the early days of Fed-Ex, there was one time the company couldn't afford the fuel bill for their planes, so the founder took the company's last $5,000 and went to Las Vegas and won $27,000en.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square41fedilinkcross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.online
minus-squarewalter_wiggles@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 months agoI don’t see how $27,000 could buy a meaningful amount of fuel.
minus-squaresubtext@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·3 months ago$27k in 1971 is about $209k today and it only bought them about a week of fuel.
I don’t see how $27,000 could buy a meaningful amount of fuel.
$27k in 1971 is about $209k today and it only bought them about a week of fuel.