"The Information About the Package Is Just as Important as the Package Itself.” That famous dictum, uttered by FedEx founder Fred Smith in 1978, is the philosophical bedrock on which the modern FedEx has been built. What sounded radical nearly five decades ago is now the engine of a $90 billion enterprise that moves 18 million packages a day across 700 planes, 200,000 vehicles and a workforce of roughly 800,000 people, including contractors.