Fred Deese is the Black embodiment of the American Dream you’ve never heard of.
The youngest son of a single mother hailing from the prison town of Atmore, Alabama, where, even now, a young person is more likely to sell drugs or turn tricks than go to college – Fred, who has struggled with dyslexia since he was a teen and jokes that he barely finished high school – rode a one-way ticket out the hood courtesy of the U.S. Navy, all the way to a multi-million-dollar empire.
The owner of a rapidly expanding suite of businesses in the government and private consulting, trucking, logistics and private equities spaces, among others, Fred’s motto? If a company doesn’t make him at least a million dollars in the first year he scraps it and moves on.