Tony Hsieh was an American Internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He retired as the CEO of the online shoe and clothing company Zappos in August 2020 after 21 years. He co-founded the Internet advertising network LinkExchange, which he sold to Microsoft in 1998 for USD 265 million. He died of a heart attack on August 24, 2013, in Las Vegas.
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Tony Hsieh was an American Internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He retired as the CEO of the online shoe and clothing company Zappos in August 2020 after 21 years. He co-founded the Internet advertising network LinkExchange, which he sold to Microsoft in 1998 for USD 265 million. He is said to have made at least 214 million from the sale, not including money made through his former investment firm Venture Frogs. He led a round of investment in private jet company JetSuite in 2011, which allowed the company to add two new Embraer Pheno jets, which weigh less than 10,000 pounds and are highly fuel-efficient. He was still running the Las Vegas-based business when his death was announced in July 2013. He died of a heart attack on August 24, 2013.
His funeral was held on August 25, 2013, in Las Vegas. He leaves behind a wife and two young children, Andy and Dave, who he met at the Branson School. He also leaves a brother, Andy, who worked at Oracle Corp. for five months after he left Harvard University. His father was a chemical engineer at Chevron Corp. His mother was a social worker, and his father was an engineer. He had two younger brothers who he also met at Harvard. He worked for Oracle Corporation. after college, he left to co-found the LinkExchanges advertising network. In 1996, he started developing the idea for an advertising network called LinkEx Exchange. In 1998, he sold the site to Microsoft.
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