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Free-rider problem
The free-rider problem, also called the freeloader problem, is when people enjoy a good without paying, so public goods are underproduced and taxation is the standard remedy.
Free-trade zone
A free-trade zone is a designated area of a country, usually near a seaport, airport, or border, where goods may be imported, stored, manufactured, and re-exported without import duties.
Freelance Programmers
Freelance Programmers was a British software house founded by Stephanie Shirley in 1962 with £6, staffed almost entirely by women working from home; later called F International, FI Group, and Xansa.
Freelancer
A freelancer, or freelance worker, is a self-employed worker who sells services to clients; in the United States, legal classification as employee or independent contractor affects payroll, benefits, and wage protections.
Freenome
Freenome is an American early cancer detection company based in Brisbane, California, founded in 2014, whose blood-based colorectal cancer screening test SimpleScreen CRC received FDA approval in 2026.
Freeport-McMoRan
Freeport-McMoRan Inc. is an American mining company producing copper, gold, and molybdenum in Indonesia and the Americas, operating the Grasberg district in Papua, which holds the world's largest gold reserves.
Freetech Intelligent Driving
Freetech Intelligent Driving (福瑞泰克) is a Chinese supplier of advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving systems, founded in 2016 by Geely veteran Zhang Lin and headquartered in Wuzhen, Zhejiang.
Freeter (フリーター)
Freeter (フリーター) is a young Japanese worker who lives on part-time or arubaito jobs rather than regular full-time employment; the term, coined in 1987, peaked above 4 million in 2001.
Freightquote.com
Freightquote.com is an online freight brokerage headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, founded by Tim Barton, letting shippers compare and book truckload and LTL freight; C.H. Robinson acquired it in 2015.
French colonization of the Americas
French colonization of the Americas was the effort to build colonies in North America and the Caribbean, formalized by a 1603 charter and ended by the 1803 Louisiana sale.
French franc
The French franc (franc français) was France's national currency from 1795 until 2002, revalued 100 to 1 in 1960 and replaced by the euro at 6.55957 francs per euro.
French Indies Company
The French Indies Company is the English name for French chartered trading companies with crown monopolies on trade with Asia and the Americas, founded by Colbert in 1664.
Frequency (marketing)
Frequency in advertising is the average number of times a person in the reached audience sees an ad, calculated as total impressions divided by reach.
Frequency Therapeutics
Frequency Therapeutics was a Massachusetts clinical-stage biotechnology company, founded in 2014, that developed progenitor cell activation therapies for hearing loss before merging into Korro Bio in 2023.
Fresenius (company)
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA is a German healthcare group that runs hospitals and a pharmaceutical and medical technology business, and holds a large stake in dialysis company Fresenius Medical Care.
Fresenius Kabi
Fresenius Kabi is a German healthcare company, founded in 1999 and headquartered in Bad Homburg, that makes IV drugs, clinical nutrition, and medical technology for critically and chronically ill patients.
Fresh Life (鲜生活冷链物流有限公司) (Xian Shenghuo)
Fresh Life (鲜生活冷链物流有限公司) is a Chengdu-based cold chain logistics company founded in 2016, incubated by New Hope Group's investment platform Grassroots Zhiben, which transports fresh and frozen food.
Fresh-start accounting
Fresh-start accounting is the US GAAP treatment, under ASC Topic 852, under which a company emerging from Chapter 11 reorganization is treated as a new reporting entity.
Fresha
Fresha is a London-based technology company providing booking, payment, and business-management software for salons and wellness businesses. It was founded in 2015 in the UAE as Shedul.
Freshworks
Freshworks, founded as Freshdesk in Chennai, India, in 2010, is a software-as-a-service company selling customer and employee experience software, including Freshdesk, Freshservice, and Freddy AI assistants.
Frete.com
Frete.com is a Brazilian digital road-freight marketplace and financial-services company formed in 2021 from CargoX, Fretebras, and FretePago, led by founder Federico Vega; it became a unicorn in November 2021.
Frictional unemployment
Frictional unemployment, also called search unemployment, is the temporary joblessness that remains in a healthy economy while workers search for and match with suitable vacancies.
Friedhelm Loh
Friedhelm Loh (born 1946) is a German entrepreneur who owns and chairs the Friedhelm Loh Group, whose core company Rittal leads the world in electrical enclosures.
Friends & Family Capital
Friends & Family Capital is a Menlo Park, California venture capital firm founded by former Palantir CFO Colin Anderson and John Fogelsong, backing private technology companies.
Frist Cressey Ventures
Frist Cressey Ventures is a Nashville venture capital firm investing in early-stage healthcare services and tech-enabled care delivery, founded in 2016 by Bill Frist and Bryan Cressey.
Fritz Demopoulos
Fritz Demopoulos, also known as Dai Furei (戴福瑞), is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Qunar, China's online travel search company, and led it as CEO until 2011.
Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche
Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche, born Fritz Hoffmann (1868–1920), was a Swiss banker who founded the pharmaceutical company F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co in Basel in 1896, among the first to manufacture scientifically researched medicines.
Fritz Sennheiser
Fritz Sennheiser (1912–2010) was a German electrical engineer who founded Sennheiser Electronic near Hanover in 1945, led it until 1982, and built it into a leading maker of microphones and headphones.
Froda (company)
Froda, also known as Froda AB, is a Stockholm-based Swedish fintech founded in 2015 that lends to small businesses directly and through partners like Visa.
Front office
The front office is the customer-facing, revenue-generating part of a firm, distinct from the middle and back office; in investment banking it advises on M&A, raises capital, and trades securities.