![]() ![]() And less than a year later, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos began what would be a five-year courtship of Hsieh and Zappos, consummating in 2009. ![]() It secured $20 million in funding from Sequoia Capital. This included layoffs, brushes with bankruptcy, and operating-model busts and rebuilds.Īt one point, Hsieh, having already sunk his personal fortune into keeping Zappos afloat, sold his San Francisco loft to finance a critical distribution warehouse in Kentucky.īy late 2004, however, Zappos had turned the corner. ![]() Showmen make the show look easy, even when it isn’t.īackstage, making Zappos successful took Hsieh and his people through years of nerve-wracking ups and downs. Of course, Hsieh, like many other CEOs, was a showman. But he at least rose to the level of quirky or maverick. And he might not have ended up as visionary. Personal Wealth v Personal Label Copyright (c) 2020, Robert Zafft ![]()
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