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In 2008 I was consuming as much entrepenuriship content I could (while building my first company). For obvious reasons I ended up watching a Tony's presentation
by marcbarbosa 6y ago
In 2008 I was consuming as much entrepenuriship content I could (while building my first company). For obvious reasons I ended up watching a Tony's presentation. He was sharing a lot of stories about Zappos and in the end he talked about their Culture Book (a book entirely written by Zappos employees, with no editing).
Immediately after watch it I sent an email directly for him (at the time a CEO of a company that would be sold to Amazon for 1.2B 8 months after) asking if I could have a digital version of the book since I was living in Brazil. For my complete surprise I received a response in less than 1 hour just asking for my address. One day after I received a physical copy of the book, signed by the very own Tony Hsieh. He even invited me to visit Zappos offices if I ever were in Las Vegas!
Today I woke up with this sad news.
Definitely, a huge loss to the world. I'm sure you'll always be an inspiration to many.
Rest in peace Tony Hsieh,
A big fan
- marcusziade 6y agoBeautiful words. Thanks for sharing.
- mongodbhater 6y ago+1
- jitbit 6y agoWHat a great story. Would you mind sharing a link (or just a title) of that video?
- sokoloff 6y agoNot GP, but it might have been this one of Tony presenting: at Startup School 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlop3TwaMJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlop3TwaMJM (poor AV quality, unfortunately) but seems most likely to be this one (which includes the offer for the culture book) Web 2.0 Summit 2008: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ2DmNk3YjQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ2DmNk3YjQ (good AV)
- marcbarbosa 6y agoVideo: https://youtu.be/JQ2DmNk3YjQ https://youtu.be/JQ2DmNk3YjQ Messages: https://i.imgur.com/DapelFJ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/DapelFJ.jpg
- schoolornot 6y agoInteresting that he would start the talk by sharing a story about a Zappos employee pulling up the billing history for the wife of someone on an office tour. That would be a fireable offense at every place I've worked and would certainly not be condoned by any C level.
- fefb 6y agoWow, obrigado por compartilhar. Thanks for sharing
- williamhrs 6y agogreat story
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