Awards & Recognition
★Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2007)
★Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People in the World (2013)
★Fortune Magazine Top 100 Most Powerful People in Business
★Fortune Magazine Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30
★ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest winner at Harvard (1993)
★Zappos regularly listed in Fortune Best Companies to Work For
Notable Facts
→Co-founded LinkExchange, sold to Microsoft for $265 million in 1998
→CEO of Zappos for 21 years, sold to Amazon for $1.2 billion in 2009
→Author of NYT bestseller 'Delivering Happiness' (2010)
→Invested $350 million in downtown Las Vegas revitalization through Downtown Project
→Harvard University computer science graduate
→Net worth estimated over $1 billion at time of death
→Died November 27, 2020 at age 46 from house fire injuries
→Revolutionary approach to company culture and customer service
→Multiple books written about him posthumously
→Tony Hsieh Award created in his honor for innovative workplace leaders