弗雷德里克?W?史密斯

????公司：聯邦快遞公司

????《財富》500強排名：63

????在《財富》500強公司奮斗終生的人群里，只有為數不多的人同時擔任公司CEO兼創始人，史密斯便是其中之一。他在耶魯大學（Yale）學期論文里勾畫出了聯邦快遞的雛形（他周末的工作是一名持照飛行員），讓史密斯名聲在外。在越南服役兩期后，他從姐姐那里借錢成立了公司。雖然這家快遞公司并沒能迅速出現起色——他曾一度不得不緊急前往拉斯維加斯，靠在賭桌上贏來的錢去拯救公司——至上世紀70年代末，史密斯的公司開始走上正軌，最終成長為這家價值480億美元的公司。目前這家公司仍由他運營。對于他的繼任者以及他會在什么時候停止工作，他一直三緘其口。

Frederick W. Smith

????Company: FedEx

????Fortune 500 rank: 63

????One in a handful of CEO founders on the Fortune 500 lifer list, Smith famously conceptualized FedEx in a college term paper at Yale (he worked as a charter pilot on the weekends). He founded the company in 1971 after two tours of duty in Vietnam, with money borrowed from his sisters. While the express delivery company didn't take off immediately—at one point, he resorted to saving the company with an emergency trip to Vegas and wiring money he made at Black Jack—by the late 1970s, Smith was on his way to building the $48 billion company he still runs today. Mum's the word on Smith's successor and when this lifer will call it quits.