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Hsieh's Downtown Project building a startup city in Downtown Las Vegas had some very dark aspects, as this 2014 article detailed. https://www.vox.com/2014/10/1
by olivermarks 6y ago
Hsieh's Downtown Project building a startup city in Downtown Las Vegas had some very dark aspects, as this 2014 article detailed.
https://www.vox.com/2014/10/1/11631452/the-downtown-project-suicides-can-the-pursuit-of-happiness-kill-you https://www.vox.com/2014/10/1/11631452/the-downtown-project-...
- jonathanpeterwu 6y agoWhat’s the point of sharing this on an article about his passing?
- olivermarks 6y agoIt's an excellent real world critique of Hsieh's ‘Delivering Happiness’ holacracy ethos. https://om.co/2020/11/28/tony-hseih-rip/ https://om.co/2020/11/28/tony-hseih-rip/
- Footkerchief 6y agoThanks for this link. One of the entrepreneur suicides that resulted from the Downtown Project was a friend of a friend, but I hadn't made the connection to Hsieh until reading this. I strongly suspect that Hsieh's repressed emotions were a causal factor in recent events.