[marcbarbosa]

In 2008 I was consuming as much entrepenuriship content I could (while building my first company). For obvious reasons I ended up watching a Tony's presentation. He was sharing a lot of stories about Zappos and in the end he talked about their Culture Book (a book entirely written by Zappos employees, with no editing).

Immediately after watch it I sent an email directly for him (at the time a CEO of a company that would be sold to Amazon for 1.2B 8 months after) asking if I could have a digital version of the book since I was living in Brazil. For my complete surprise I received a response in less than 1 hour just asking for my address. One day after I received a physical copy of the book, signed by the very own Tony Hsieh. He even invited me to visit Zappos offices if I ever were in Las Vegas!

Today I woke up with this sad news. Definitely, a huge loss to the world. I'm sure you'll always be an inspiration to many.

Rest in peace Tony Hsieh, A big fan

[marcusziade]

Beautiful words. Thanks for sharing.

[mongodbhater]

+1

[jitbit]

WHat a great story.

Would you mind sharing a link (or just a title) of that video?

[marcbarbosa]

Video: https://youtu.be/JQ2DmNk3YjQ

Messages: https://i.imgur.com/DapelFJ.jpg

[schoolornot]

Interesting that he would start the talk by sharing a story about a Zappos employee pulling up the billing history for the wife of someone on an office tour. That would be a fireable offense at every place I've worked and would certainly not be condoned by any C level.

[sokoloff]

Not GP, but it might have been this one of Tony presenting:

at Startup School 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlop3TwaMJM (poor AV quality, unfortunately)

but seems most likely to be this one (which includes the offer for the culture book) Web 2.0 Summit 2008: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ2DmNk3YjQ (good AV)

[fefb]

Wow, obrigado por compartilhar. Thanks for sharing

[williamhrs]

great story