Tony Hsieh
In 1999, at the age of 24, Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) sold LinkExchange, the company he co-founded, to Microsoft for $265 million. He then joined Zappos as an adviser and investor, and eventually became CEO, where he helped Zappos grow from almost no sales to over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually, while simultaneously making Fortune magazine’s annual “Best Companies to Work For” list. Zappos was acquired by Amazon in November 2009 in a deal valued at $1.2 billion on the day of closing.
Tony’s first book, “Delivering Happiness”, debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list and has remained on the list every week since June 2010.
He currently lives in Las Vegas and sort of has a cat.
Website: http://www.zappos.com
