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Anthony Hsieh (Chinese: 謝家華; / ʃ eɪ / SHAY; [1] December 12, 1973 – November 27, 2020) [2] [3] [4] was an American internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He retired as the CEO of the online shoe and clothing company Zappos in August 2020 after 21 years.
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose (2010) is a book by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. It details his life as an entrepreneur, with emphasis on the founding of LinkExchange and Zappos.
Zappos' ex-CEO Tony Hsieh was a pioneer in treating employee happiness as a top business priority.
Tony Hsieh, the former head of Zappos who catapulted the shoe company into the big leagues with a sale to Amazon and then used the proceeds of his success in a huge project kickstarting ...
On August 24, 2020, Tony Hsieh retired as CEO after 21 years at the helm. COO Kedar Deshpande took over as the new CEO. [35] On November 27, 2020, Tony Hsieh died from smoke inhalation suffered in a house fire. [36] After Deshpande left Zappos, Scott Schaefer, the company's VP of finance, was named Zappos CEO on April 6, 2022. [37]
Tony Hsieh, the retired CEO of Las Vegas-based online shoe retailer Zappos.com who spent years working to transform the city's downtown area, has died. Hsieh was with family when he died Friday ...
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In November 1996, when the company consisted of about 10 people, it moved from Hsieh's and Madan's living room to an office [4] in San Francisco. In May 1997, the company received US$3 million in funding from Sequoia Capital. [5] In June 1998, LinkExchange acquired MerchantPlanet, an early shopping cart and credit card application. [6]