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Fact #1: Gambling Saved FedEx From Bankruptcy. Back in 1973, the FedEx owner was in a pickle. The company was barely making any profit and it was on the brink of bankruptcy. Luckily, its owner knew how to play Blackjack. He went to a casino in Las Vegas and placed a single wager worth $5,000 on a game of 21. Today FedEx is a 29 billion dollar company. Not a bad payoff, all things considered. First High Stakes Play: $777,000. In the 1980s, casino owner Benny Binion opened up the Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas, and unlike the other casinos as the time, Benny’s casino would accept a bet no matter how large. June 2, 2011 Daven Hiskey 18 comments Today I found out the founder of FedEx once saved the company by taking its last $5,000 and turning it into $32,000 by gambling in Las Vegas. The man is Frederick W. Smith who is the founder and current CEO of FedEx.

FedEx, the world’s first overnight delivery company, transports over 1.2 billion packages each year in more than 220 countries. Still, in the beginning, the company’s founder was so fraught that he had to depend on casinos and gambling to finance his company.

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In 1971, Fred W. Smith took his private fortune of approximately $4 million and made from it an extra $90 million in order to establish his delivery company, FedEx. This is something that could never have been achieved during that time. In 1962, Smith drafted his paper regarding the company’s operation when studying at Yale University, which was basically a due economics paper submitted at the last minute.

Unfortunately, 3 years after the business was established, due to the rapidly increasing costs of fuel, FedEx came on the edge of insolvency, losing more than $1 million in just 30 days, with no one agreeing to lend them any extra loans – the investors became hesitant in financing capital.

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Washington owner Daniel Snyder is exploring whether he could get legal approval for sports betting in Maryland, where FedEx Field is located and where Snyder has looked into building a new stadium down the road.

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The Washington Post reports that Snyder met with multiple members of the state legislature in Maryland and conditioned keeping the team in Maryland on the ability to offer sports betting at a new stadium. The idea Snyder was floating was to build a new stadium on the FedEx Field site, with gambling on the premises.

One lawmaker told the Post that Snyder suggested that if he doesn’t get his way in Maryland, he’ll move the team to Virginia, although that lawmaker said Snyder’s team isn’t particularly popular in Maryland right now.

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“It wasn’t too high-pressured,” the lawmaker said. “Most of the people in the room were Ravens fans, so it sort of fell on deaf ears.”

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Whatever happens with Snyder’s plans in Maryland, what’s clear is that the NFL has gone from a hands-off attitude toward gambling to an all-out embrace of it. There’s money to be made in betting on sports, and the NFL wants to make it, including at stadiums where NFL games are played.