What I found most interesting was the story of FedEx founder Fred Smith. According to wikipedia, he wrote a paper "outlining overnight delivery service in a computer information age" for an economics class at Yale, had spent time as an amateur pilot, and was later a forward air controller in the Marines before eventually investing in an aircraft maintenance company and then founding Federal Express. He did have the advantage of inherited wealth as starter money...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_W._Smith
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