From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters, -a startling portrait of one of our greatest tech visionaries, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh- (Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road), reporting on his short life and untimely death and what they mean for our culture-s pursuit of happiness. Tony Hsieh-CEO of Zappos, Las Vegas developer, and all-around beloved entrepreneur-was famous for spreading happiness. He lived and breathed this philosophy, instilling an ethos of joy at his company and outlining his vision for a better workplace in his New York Times bestseller Delivering Happiness. He promoted a workplace where bosses treated employees like family members, where stress was replaced by playfulness, and where hierarchies were replaced with equality and collaboration. His outlook shaped Silicon Valley and the larger business world. Hsieh used his position at work to integrate levity into a normally competitive environment. He aspired to build his own utopian cities, pouring millions of
