Larry Hillblom
Larry Hillblom is best known as the co-founder of DHL Worldwide Express, the global shipping and courier company he established in 1969 alongside Adrian Dalsey and Robert Lynn. He earned a law degree from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law and later relocated to Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, where he pursued various business ventures. He disappeared in a seaplane crash on May 21, 1995, and his body was never recovered.
“Stan Shih (Acer), Amadeo Giannini (Bank of America), Larry Hillblom (DHL), George Eastman (Kodak), Fred Smith (FedEx), Jerry Yang (Yahoo), Carlos Slim (América Móvil), Jorge Paulo Lemann (3G Capital), Aristotle Onassis (Olympic Maritime), Harland David Sanders (KFC), James Dyson, Lorenzo Zambrano (CEMEX), Jim Casey (UPS), Li Ka-Shing (CK Hutchison), Frank Lowy (Westfield), Alfred Krupp all lost parents in childhood or adolescence.”
Source→“"Larry Hillblom (DHL)... Named in early parental loss list."”
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