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In 1973, they opened their first gas station. By age 28, Koo managed 16 service centers. Patricia served as the bookkeeper for their growing chain of stations, which funded their later charitable work. Philanthropy & The Yuen Foundation
, which supports various causes including education, medical programs for children, and Asian American media outlets like Personal History koo and patricia yuen wikipedia
After his MBA, Koo Yuen worked briefly at FedEx as a supply chain analyst before founding in 1975 with a single warehouse in Oakland, California . The company specialized in transpacific freight forwarding, capitalizing on the normalization of US-China trade relations in the late 1970s. By 1990, Yuen Enterprises had become the largest Asian-owned logistics firm on the West Coast, with annual revenues exceeding $2 billion. Koo served as CEO until 2010 and remains Chairman Emeritus. He is credited with pioneering "just-in-time" shipping routes between Shanghai and Los Angeles. In 1973, they opened their first gas station
