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Frederic Court
Frederic Court is a London-based venture capitalist who founded Felix Capital in 2015, backing Farfetch, Deliveroo, and Moonbug and appearing on the Forbes Midas List Europe.
Frederick Krehbiel
Frederick August Krehbiel was an American inventor and businessman who founded Molex in Brookfield, Illinois, in 1938, after he and his son developed a moldable plastic.
Frederick Miller
Frederick Miller (1824–1888) was a German-born American brewer who founded the Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1855 and led it until his death.
Frederick Pabst
Frederick Pabst (1836–1904) was a German-born American brewer who joined the Phillip Best brewery by marriage and built it into the largest in the United States.
Frederick Rueckheim
Frederick Rueckheim was a German-born American confectioner who settled in Chicago and founded the popcorn business that created Cracker Jack, introduced at the 1893 World's Fair.
Frederick Taylor
Frederick Taylor, known as Fred Taylor, is a mathematician who co-founded TGS Management, a secretive quantitative hedge fund in Irvine, California, in 1989, after working at Princeton-Newport Partners.
Frederick Trump
Frederick Trump, born Friedrich Trump, was a German-American barber turned restaurant and hotel founder in Seattle and the Yukon during the Klondike gold rush, and grandfather of Donald Trump.
Frederick W. Smith
Frederick W. Smith, also known as Fred W. Smith, was an American entrepreneur who founded Federal Express (FedEx) in 1971 and served as its chief executive until 2022.
Frederick Whitaker
Sir Frederick Whitaker (1812–1891) was an English-born lawyer, businessman, and politician in Auckland, New Zealand, who served twice as premier and helped found the Bank of New Zealand.
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Frederick Winslow Taylor, also known as F. W. Taylor, was an American mechanical engineer whose stopwatch time studies and 1911 book The Principles of Scientific Management founded scientific management, or Taylorism.
Fredrick Hirth
Fredrick Hirth, also printed as Fred Hirth or F. Hirth, was a Grand Rapids leather merchant who in 1883 formed the Hirth-Krause Company with G.A. Krause, the wholesale leather business that grew into Wolverine World Wide.
Fredrik Cassel
Fredrik Cassel is a venture capital investor and General Partner at Creandum, the Stockholm-based firm he joined in 2003, known for early backing of Spotify, Depop, and Kahoot!.
Fredrik Edfors
Fredrik Edfors is a Swedish proteomics researcher and Director of ProteomEdge AB, a Stockholm proteomics company he co-founded in 2023, and an assistant professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Fredrik Eklund
Fredrik Eklund is a Swedish-born luxury real estate broker and television personality, an original cast member of Bravo's Million Dollar Listing New York from 2012 to 2022.
Fredrik Hedberg
Fredrik Hedberg is a Swedish technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Stockholm open banking platform Tink in 2012, serving as its chief technology officer through Visa's €1.8 billion acquisition.
Fredrik Hjelm
Fredrik Hjelm is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded Voi Technology in Stockholm in 2018 and leads it as chief executive officer, steering the shared e-scooter operator to its first profitable year in 2024.
Fredrik Idestam
Fredrik Idestam was a Finnish mining engineer who founded the pulp mill that grew into Nokia, converting it into the limited company Nokia Ab with Leo Mechelin in 1871.
Fredrik Österberg
Fredrik Österberg (born 1970) is a Swedish businessman who co-founded Evolution AB, the Stockholm-based live-dealer casino supplier, in 2006 with Jens von Bahr and remains one of its largest owners.
Free agent
A free agent is a professional athlete whose contract has expired or been bought out, allowing negotiation with other clubs under each league's collective bargaining agreement restrictions.
Free banking
Free banking is a banking system in which banks competitively issue their own notes without a central-bank monopoly, seen historically in Scotland, Canada, Sweden, and Switzerland.
Free cash flow
Free cash flow (FCF) is a non-GAAP measure of the cash a business generates, commonly operating cash flow less capital expenditures, and the raw material of discounted cash flow valuation.
Free cash flow to equity
Free cash flow to equity (FCFE) is the cash flow available to a company's common stockholders after operating expenses, reinvestment needs, and debt-related cash flows, discounted at the required return on equity.
Free cash flow to the firm
Free cash flow to the firm (FCFF) is the cash a company generates that is available to all capital providers, both debt and equity holders.
Free entry
Free entry is the condition in economics under which firms may enter a market without entry barriers; it is a property of market structure, not of the number of firms.
Free Federation of Workers
The Free Federation of Workers (Federación Libre de Trabajadores, FLT) was Puerto Rico's first labor federation, founded in 1899 by Santiago Iglesias Pantín and affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.
Free market
A free market is a market where prices and terms of exchange are set by voluntary transactions between buyers and sellers, not by coercive central authorities.
Free ports in the British West Indies
Free ports in the British West Indies were designated Caribbean ports, first opened by the Free Port Act of 1766, where foreign merchants could legally trade with British merchants.
Free public transport
Free public transport, also known as zero-fare or fare-free transport, removes fares from public transit, funded by taxes or subsidies; Luxembourg made all travel free in 2020.
Free trade
Free trade, also called trade liberalization, is trade across national borders without government-imposed barriers such as tariffs, import quotas, and licensing restrictions, governed in part by WTO rules.
Free trade area
A free trade area is a group of customs territories that eliminate duties on substantially all trade among members, each keeping its own external tariffs, which requires rules of origin.