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No personal direct experience - I like that he was an experimenter. Great experimenters have lots of failures to go along with their successes. He made a grea
by mathattack 6y ago
No personal direct experience - I like that he was an experimenter. Great experimenters have lots of failures to go along with their successes. He made a great company in a way that went against the grain, and survived an acquisition from a buyer with a very strong culture.
- reaperducer 6y agoNo personal experience here, either, but word on the street last year was that he was widely disliked outside of Zappos. When I lived in Nevada, he was heralded as the future savior of downtown Las Vegas, having bought up a bunch of dead motels and vacant lots to transform into something new and better. Plenty of "tech disruptor" headlines in the newspapers. After a few years, when virtually nothing came of it other than a quirky-but-empty strip mall and a clubhouse for his hangers-on to gather in, there started appearing articles about people being unhappy with how things were going, and him in particular. Never heard about any strife from inside Zappos, though. https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/hsieh-lands-in-court-over-plumbing-problems-at-condos/ https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/hsieh-lands-in-court-... https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/nightclub-with-troubled-past-draws-downtown-projects-hsieh-into-court-battle/ https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/nightclu... https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/downtown-project-lays-off-30-workers-hsieh-role-unchanged/ https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/downtown-project-lays...