The book "Wonder Boy" is a captivating exploration of the tumultuous life of visionary Tony Hsieh of Zappos, whose radical business strategies revolutionized both the tech world and corporate culture, based on rigorous research and reporting by two seasoned journalists. Hsieh's first success was in elementary school, selling personalized buttons. At Harvard, he made money by compiling and selling study guides. In 1998, Hsieh sold his first company to Microsoft for $265 million. About a decade later, he sold the online shoe empire Zappos to Amazon for $1.2 billion. The secret to his success? The happiness of his employees. At its peak, Zappos' employee-friendly culture was so renowned throughout the tech industry that it became one of the hardest companies to get hired at, with CEOs from other companies regularly visiting the headquarters. But Hsieh's visionary idea for change didn't stop at corporate culture: He moved Zappos' headquarters to Las Vegas and personally funded a nine-figure campaign to revitalize the city's historic downtown area. There, he could be found living in an Airstream and conversing with locals. However, Hsieh's interventions in community revitalization projects spun out of control as his mental health and addiction issues grew, creating the opportunity for more enablers than friends to be in his volatile good graces. Based on hundreds of interviews with a wide range of people impacted by Hsieh's life, journalists Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans create a rich portrait of a man who was haunted by the pressure to achieve but never lost his generous spirit.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Angel Au-Yeung
- Publisher
- Random House
- Award
- -
- Language
- English
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 304
- Release Date
- 03/2023
- Publication Date
- 2023
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781911709213
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