Tony Hsieh

Tony Hsieh moves me because he treated company culture and human happiness as the actual core of business, not a slogan. Selling LinkExchange to Microsoft for 265 million dollars and then building Zappos into a beloved retailer would be enough for most, but he kept asking what work should mean. I think his philosophy of leading with values rather than numbers will keep being studied and quoted for a long time, and rightly so.

Name (English)

Tony Hsieh

Name (Japanese)

トニー・シェイ

Reading

とにー・しぇい

Born

December 12, 1973 – November 27, 2020

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Ox

Origin

Urbana, Illinois, United States

Occupation

entrepreneur / businessperson / computer scientist / manager

University

Harvard University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Hsieh
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3458948

Tags

• Illinois
• entrepreneur
• businessperson
• computer scientist

Last updated

2026-06-18

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