Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Zappos former CEO Tony Hsieh. Zappos was founded in 1999 by Nick Swinmurn. [5] Swinmurn launched the company with Tony Hsieh and Alfred Lin, [7] who invested $2 million through their investment firm Venture Frogs. [8] The company was officially launched online in 1999 as ShoeSite.com. [9]
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.
It was founded in March 1996 by 23-year-old Harvard graduates Tony Hsieh (who later went on to invest in and become the CEO of Zappos) and Sanjay Madan. [1] Ali Partovi later joined them as a third partner in August 1996. [2] Alfred Lin dropped out of his Stanford PhD program to join as CFO. [3]
The Downtown Container Park was conceived by Tony Hsieh and his Downtown Project, a group dedicated to revitalizing downtown Las Vegas. [2] [3] [4] The Container Park project was announced in May 2012, and would include shops, restaurants, and bars built into shipping containers.
Sui was in a relationship with How Yao from 2004 to 2012; she then married Tony Hsieh in 2015. She gave birth to a son, Max, on August 30, 2015. Their second child, a daughter named Lucy, was born on February 1, 2017. Their third child was born on December 18, 2018, named Olie.
With Tony Hsieh he also co-founded Venture Frogs, an incubator and investment firm. [9] Venture Frogs invested in a variety of tech and Internet startups, including Ask Jeeves, OpenTable, Tellme Networks, and Zappos. [10] From 2005 to 2010, Lin was chairman, COO, and CFO.
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 ...