Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley by Au-Yeung, Angel

Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley

In 1998, at the age of 24, Tony Hsieh sold his first company to Microsoft for $265...
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Author: Angel Au-Yeung
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Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley by Au-Yeung, Angel

Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley

€28,04

Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley

€28,04
Author: Angel Au-Yeung
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In 1998, at the age of 24, Tony Hsieh sold his first company to Microsoft for $265 million.
In 2009, at the age of 35, he sold his e-commerce company, Zappos, to Amazon for $1.2 billion.
In 2020, at the age of 46, he died.

Tony Hsieh revolutionized both the tech world and corporate culture. He was a business visionary. He was also a man in search of happiness. So why did it all go so wrong?

Tony Hsieh's first successful venture was in middle school, selling personalized buttons. At Harvard, he made a profit compiling and selling study guides. From there, he went on to build the billion-dollar online shoe empire of Zappos.

The secret to his success? Making his employees happy.

At its peak, Zappos's employee-friendly culture was so famous across the tech industry that it inspired copycats and earned a cult following. Then Hsieh moved the Zappos headquarters to Las Vegas, where he personally funded a nine-figure campaign to revitalize the city's historic downtown area. But as Hsieh fell deeper into his struggles with mental health and drug addiction, the people making up his inner circle began changing from friends to enablers.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with a wide range of people whose lives Hsieh touched, journalists Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans craft a rich portrait of a man who was plagued by his eternal search for happiness and ultimately succumbed to his own demons.

Author: Angel Au-Yeung, David Jeans
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Published: 04/23/2024
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781250861597

About the Author

Angel Au-Yeung, co-author of Wonder Boy, is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and a former staff writer for Forbes. She was born in Hong Kong and grew up in California, the youngest of three sisters. She attended UC San Diego for her undergraduate studies as a cognitive neuroscience major and Columbia University for her graduate degree in journalism. She currently lives in San Francisco.

David Jeans, co-author of Wonder Boy, is an investigative reporter for Forbes, where he covers the tech industry. He holds a master's degree from Columbia Journalism School and has reported for the Associated Press, the New York Times, and other publications. He grew up in Melbourne, Australia, and lives in New York City.

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