January 2023
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
3h 45m
English
Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) was born in 1973 in Illinois. His parents were immigrants from Taiwan who met at graduate school. Hsieh studied computer science at Harvard University where he was a member of a prize-winning programming contest team. While there, as a student job he managed a pizza grill. One of his customers was Alfred Lin, who became his friend and later became CFO and COO at Zappos. After graduating, Hsieh worked for Oracle but quit in 1996 after just five months to co-found the LinkExchange, an advertising network. It sold banner ads and grew quickly on the crest of the burgeoning wave of new websites. In 1998 LinkExchange was sold to Microsoft for $265 million.
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