Wonder Boy
Tony Hsieh, Zappos and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley
$51.84
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
25 April 2023
Summary
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.
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 b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781911709213 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1911709216 |
| Author: | David Jeans, Angel Au-Yeung |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Torva |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 25 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 481g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
A story of the extraordinary business success of Tony Hsieh. In this cautionary tale, reporters Au-Yeung and Jeans unsparingly shed light on what went wrong. – Financial Times * Best Summer Books of 2023 *
A heartbreaking and extraordinary account of a heartbreaking and extraordinary man. Hsieh was an innovative business leader, but he was also frenetic, generous, difficult, and tormented. His rise and fall is a quintessential American tragedy. – Max Chafkin * author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power *
A captivating story about the combustible mixture of genius, ambition, ego, empathy, wealth, and intoxicants in the turbocharged environment of the technology elite. Revelatory and entertaining. – Alec Ross * author of The Raging 2020s *
Wonder Boy is so much more than a biography… it’s full of lessons for anyone interested in psychology, business, or social dynamics. Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans approach their subject as investigative reporters, yet they remain full of empathy and compassion. – Dan Alexander * author of White House, Inc.: How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency into a Business *
About The Author
David Jeans
Angel Au-Yeung, co-author of Wonder Boy, is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and a former staff writer for Forbes. She was born in Hong Kong and attended UC San Diego for undergrad as a cognitive neuroscience major and Columbia University for her graduate degree in journalism. She currently lives in San Francisco.
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