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☆ Angel Au-Yeung — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
  + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Angel Au-Yeung | Peter Rudegeair | Berber Jin | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Angel Au-YeungAngel Au-Yeung is a reporter in The Wall Street Journal's finance bureau. Her stories explore how some of the largest financial institutions and investors influence corporate America and Main Street. She joined the Journal from Forbes, where she was a staff writer. During her five years at Forbes, she won two Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing awards. She is co-writing a biography about Tony Hsieh, which will be published by Henry Holt & Co., an imprint of Macmillan Publishers.
Persons: Angel, Angel Au, Tony Hsieh, Henry Holt Organizations: Forbes, Society, Henry Holt & Co, Macmillan Publishers Locations: America, Russian
☆ Kirsten Grind — Enterprise Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
  + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Kirsten Grind | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Kirsten GrindKirsten Grind is an enterprise reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where she has worked since 2012. She focuses on technology companies and executives, covering issues ranging from sexual harassment allegations to data privacy issues. She is the co-author of the recently released book “Happy At Any Cost: The Revolutionary Vision and Fatal Quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh,” from Simon & Schuster. Her first book, “The Lost Bank,” about the collapse of Washington Mutual, was named the best investigative book of 2012 by the Investigative Reporters & Editors association. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
Persons: Kirsten, Gerald Loeb, Tony Hsieh, ”, Simon, Simon & Schuster Organizations: Wall Street, Simon &, Lost Bank, ”, Washington Mutual, Investigative Locations: San Francisco Bay
☆ Katherine Sayre — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
  + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Katherine Sayre | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Katherine SayreKatherine Sayre is a reporter covering the gambling industry in The Wall Street Journal’s entertainment bureau in Los Angeles. Her stories explore the bustling casinos on the Las Vegas Strip and how sports betting is changing media, sports leagues and sports fandom in America. Katherine is the co-author with Journal colleague Kirsten Grind of “Happy at Any Cost: The Revolutionary Vision and Fatal Quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh,” published by Simon & Schuster in March 2022. Before joining the Journal, Katherine was a lead investigative reporter for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans. She grew up in Brownwood, Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas and Northwestern University.
Persons: Katherine Sayre Katherine Sayre, Katherine, Kirsten Grind, Tony Hsieh, ”, Simon, Simon & Schuster Organizations: Las, Simon &, Times, University of Texas, Northwestern University Locations: Los Angeles, America, New Orleans, Brownwood , Texas
☆ Dispute Erupts Over Former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s Happiness Brand
  + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Katherine Sayre | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Persons: Dow Jones
☆ How a Tech Star Lost His Way
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Ellen Barry | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
WONDER BOY: Tony Hsieh, Zappos and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley, by Angel Au-Yeung and David JeansA few chapters into “Wonder Boy,” Tony Hsieh sells his first company to Microsoft for $265 million. At 24, he is fabulously rich and one of the rising stars in the tech firmament. So he sits down to write a list of the happiest periods in his life. “Connecting with a friend and talking through the entire night until the sun rose made me happy,” he writes. Lying on the freezing ground on a filthy blanket, he suffered smoke inhalation that would kill him.
☆ Late Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh devised a '10X' scheme to spend his wealth in the last weeks of his life. Here's how those close to him took advantage of it.
  + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Rosalie Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh died in 2020 following injuries he sustained in a house fire. Hsieh devised a scheme called "10X" that demanded achievement in multiples of ten, Forbes reported. In the last weeks of his life, the former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh spent much of his wealth in a scheme he devised called 10X. The LLC had $10 million to fund documentary film projects, which entitled Grande to a $1 million commission. The 10X scheme sometimes caused disputes.
☆ Amazon Changes at Zappos Slowly Dismantle Tony Hsieh’s Legacy
  + stars: | 2023-02-11 | by ( Kirsten Grind | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Amazon .com Inc. is slowly dismantling Tony Hsieh’s version of Zappos, more than two years after the famed entrepreneur’s death. Zappos laid off more than 300 employees last month, or about 20% of the Las Vegas-based company’s workforce, according to people familiar with the layoffs and a Zappos memo viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
☆ I made the biggest decision of my career when I sold Credit Karma. Here are the 4 most important lessons I learned.
  + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Kenneth Lin | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Kenneth Lin is the founder and CEO of Credit Karma, a personal-finance company that was sold to Intuit for a whopping $8.1 billion in one of the biggest fintech deals of 2020. Lin says it took months to decide on the acquisition and it was the biggest decision of his career. After countless Starbucks conversations and dozens of "duds," the idea for Credit Karma hit. This decision wasn't made overnight and neither was the success of Credit Karma. There's no blueprint for the perfect CEOLike others who start to ascend in their careers, I spent much of my early years at Credit Karma feeling a bit like an imposter.
☆ Late Zappos founder Tony Hsieh said he believed he was 'crystallizing' and part of 'a simulation' in month before death, court documents reveal
  + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Bethany Biron | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Court documents filed this week provide more insight into the final weeks of the life of Zappos founder Tony Hsieh. According to the documents, the month before his death, Hsieh, who was 46 at the time, was taken to the hospital after he said he believed he was "crystallizing." The documents, which also noted that Hsieh had begun chewing on cigarettes as his health declined, state that Hsieh first began using ketamine in November 2019 before openly experimenting with nitrous oxide, KTNV reported. Per KTNV, Andrew Hsieh was offered a $1 million salary to care for his brother. According to the filings, Andrew Hsieh also requested that "vitamins and protein supplements" be added to his brother's food, as he was becoming increasingly emaciated, KTNV reported.
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