EAN: 9781911709213

WONDER BOY - ANGEL AU-YEUNG DAVID JEANS KARTONI...

Wonder Boy is a riveting investigation into the turbulent life of Zappos visionary Tony Hsieh 
whose radical business strategies revolutionized both the tech world and corporate culture 
based on rigorous research and reporting by two seasoned journalists. Tony Hsieh's first
successful venture was in middle school  selling personalized buttons. At Harvard  he made a
profit compiling and selling study guides. In 1998  Hsieh sold his first company to Microsoft
for $265 million. About a decade later  he sold online shoe empire Zappos to Amazon for $1.2
billion. The secret to his success? Making his employees happy. At its peak  Zappos's
employee-friendly culture was so famous across the tech industry that it became one of the
hardest companies to get hired at  and CEOs from other companies regularly toured the
headquarters. But Hsieh's vision for change didn't stop with corporate culture: Hsieh went on
to move Zappos headquarters to Las Vegas and personally funded a nine-figure campaign to
revitalize the city's historic downtown area. There  he could be found living in an Airstream
and chatting up the locals. But Hsieh's forays into community-revival projects spun out of
control as his issues with mental health and addiction ramped up  creating the opportunity for
more enablers than friends to stand in his mercurial good graces. Drawing on hundreds of
interviews with a wide range of people whose lives Hsieh touched  journalists Angel Au-Yeung
and David Jeans craft a rich portrait of a man who was plagued by the pressure to succeed but
who never lost his generous spirit.

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