1. Anthony Hsieh was an American internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
18 Facts About Tony Hsieh
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Tony Hsieh retired as the CEO of the online shoe and clothing company Zappos in August 2020 after 21 years.
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Tony Hsieh was born to a Taiwanese American family in Urbana, Illinois.
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Tony Hsieh's parents were Richard and Judy Hsieh, immigrants from Taiwan who met in graduate school at the University of Illinois.
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Tony Hsieh's family moved to Lucas Valley area of Marin County, California when he was five.
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Tony Hsieh's mother was a social worker, and his father a chemical engineer at Chevron Corp.
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In 1995, Tony Hsieh graduated from Harvard University with a degree in computer science.
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In 1996, Tony Hsieh started developing the idea for an advertising network called LinkExchange with his college classmates Sanjay Madan and Ali Partovi.
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One of Tony Hsieh's friends said she would invest everything if they chose "Venture Frogs" as the name, and the pair took her up on the bet, although they had not seen any money as of 2011.
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Tony Hsieh was initially skeptical and almost deleted Swinmurn's initial voice mail.
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Tony Hsieh moved Zappos headquarters to Henderson, Nevada and eventually to downtown Las Vegas.
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From 2009 until his death, Tony Hsieh, who was still running the downtown Las Vegas-based Zappos.
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Tony Hsieh originally planned the Downtown Project as a place where Zappos.
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Tony Hsieh was a member of the Harvard University team that won the 1993 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in Indianapolis, ranking first of 31 entrants.
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Tony Hsieh resided primarily in Downtown Las Vegas, and owned a residence in Southern Highlands, Nevada.
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Tony Hsieh was known for taking extreme challenges regarding his body, including starving himself of oxygen to induce hypoxia, using nitrous oxide, and fasting to the point where he was under 100 pounds.
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The Connecticut medical examiner determined that Tony Hsieh died from smoke inhalation, and ruled his death was an accident.
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The Wall Street Journal reported that according to property records, Tony Hsieh was staying at a house that was possibly owned by a former Zappos employee, Rachael Brown.