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Jim McCann | How 1-800-Flowers Has Been Delivering Smiles for 45 Years
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Jim McCann | How 1-800-Flowers Has Been Delivering Smiles for 45 Years

Jim McCann is the founder and chairman of 1-800-Flowers, one of the first companies to pioneer and popularize the use of both toll-free telephone numbers and Web sites in the early days of the Internet to sell goods and services directly to consumers. What started as a flower shop on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 1976 has since grown into a publicly-traded company worth over $2 billion with thousands of employees. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER & STAY UPDATED > http://bit.ly/tfh-newsletter FOLLOW TFH ON INSTAGRAM > http://www.instagram.com/thefounderhour FOLLOW TFH ON TWITTER > http://www.twitter.com/thefounderhour INTERESTED IN BECOMING A SPONSOR? EMAIL US > [email protected]

The Founder Hour · Jim McCann, Patrick Tanahan, Nerses Aposhian

November 16, 20211h 6mExplicit

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Jim McCann is the founder and chairman of 1-800-Flowers, one of the first companies to pioneer and popularize the use of both toll-free telephone numbers and Web sites in the early days of the Internet to sell goods and services directly to consumers.

What started as a flower shop on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 1976 has since grown into a publicly-traded company worth over $2 billion with thousands of employees.

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER & STAY UPDATED > http://bit.ly/tfh-newsletter

FOLLOW TFH ON INSTAGRAM > http://www.instagram.com/thefounderhour

FOLLOW TFH ON TWITTER > http://www.twitter.com/thefounderhour

INTERESTED IN BECOMING A SPONSOR? EMAIL US > [email protected]

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