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What's striking to me is that the CEO letter mentions Moritz directly. I'm sure this isn't the last we'll hear of this story. > We asked our board members wh
by jamie 17y ago
What's striking to me is that the CEO letter mentions Moritz directly.
I'm sure this isn't the last we'll hear of this story.
> We asked our board members what they thought of the opportunity. Michael
> Moritz, who represents Sequoia Capital (one of our investors and board
> members), wrote the following: "You now have the opportunity to accelerate
> Zappos' progress and to make the name and the brand and everything associated
> with it an enduring, permanent part of peoples' lives... You are now free to
> let your imagination roam - and to contemplate initiatives and undertakings
> that today, in our more constrained setting, we could not take on."
http://blogs.zappos.com/ceoletter http://blogs.zappos.com/ceoletter
> At least two sources who do not hold board seats, but are directly involved
> with Zappos, indicated that Moritz and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh came into
> conflict about the company’s future. Moritz, the sources say, wanted Zappos to
> sell while Hsieh wanted to remain independent.
http://www.pehub.com/45388/zappos-ceo-wanted-to-stay-independent-sequoia-wanted-liquidity—sources/ http://www.pehub.com/45388/zappos-ceo-wanted-to-stay-indepen...
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