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Zappos.com is an American online shoe and clothing retailer based in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. [1] The company was founded in 1999 by Nick Swinmurn and launched under the domain name Shoesite.com. In July 2009, Amazon acquired Zappos in an all-stock deal worth around $1.2 billion at the time.
Two months later, Hsieh joined Zappos as the CEO, starting with $1.6 million of total sales in 2000. [11] By 2009, revenues reached $1 billion. [24] [25] Without a precedent to guide him, Hsieh learned how to make customers feel comfortable shopping for shoes online. Zappos offered free shipping and free returns, sometimes of several pairs.
Nick Swinmurn is the founder of Zappos. He started the company in 1999. He started the company in 1999. He left in 2006, before it reached $1 billion sales in 2008, and was sold to Amazon in 2009.
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.
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Fred Mossler (born July 2, 1966 in San Francisco, CA) is a business executive, fashion guru, and philanthropist.He is best known as a former high-ranking executive at online shoe retailer Zappos, [1] where he played a significant role in the company’s growth, [2] as well as being the founder of Las Vegas-centric investment fund Honus Capital, LLC and co-founder of luxury fashion brand Ross ...
Later, before joining Zappos, Lin was the VP of Finance and Business Development of Tellme Networks (MSFT). 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]
Zappos has a customer base of over 24 million people. In January 2012, Zappos suffered a data security breach that gave hackers personal information of their customers. . While the security breach exposed names, addresses, and phone numbers of Zappos customers, it did not expose the customers' credit card informa