From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters, "a startling
portrait of one of our greatest tech visionaries, Zappos CEO Tony
Hsieh" (Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road), reporting on
his short life, untimely death, and what that means for our pursuit
of happiness. Tony Hsieh-CEO of Zappos, Las Vegas developer, and
beloved entrepreneur-was famous for spreading happiness. He lived
and breathed this philosophy, instilling an ethos of joy at his
company, outlining his vision for a better workplace in his New
York Times bestseller Delivering Happiness. He promoted a workplace
where bosses treated employees like family members, where stress
was replaced by playfulness, and where hierarchies were replaced
with equality and collaboration. His outlook shaped how we work
today. Hsieh also aspired to build his own utopian cities, pouring
millions of dollars into real estate and small businesses, first in
downtown Las Vegas, Nevada-where Zappos is headquartered-and then
in Park City, Utah. He gave generously to his employees and close
friends, including throwing notorious Zappos parities and
organizing gatherings at his home, an Airstream trailer park. When
Hsieh died suddenly in late 2022, the news shook the business and
tech world. Wall Street Journal reporters Kirsten Grind and
Katherine Sayre discovered Hsieh's obsession with happiness masked
his darker struggles with addiction, mental health, and loneliness.
In the last year of his life, he spiraled out of control, cycling
out of rehab and into the waiting arms of friends who enabled his
worst behavior, even as he bankrolled them from his billion-dollar
fortune. Happy at Any Cost sheds light on one of our most creative,
yet vulnerable, business leaders. It's about our intense need to
find "happiness" at all costs, our misguided worship of
entrepreneurs, the stigmas still surrounding mental health, and how
the trappings of fame can mask all types of deeper problems. In
turn, it reveals how we conceptualize success-and define
happiness-in our modern age.
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