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 and untimely death and what they mean for our
culture's pursuit of happiness. Tony Hsieh-CEO of Zappos, Las Vegas
developer, and all-around beloved entrepreneur-was famous for
spreading happiness. He lived and breathed this philosophy,
instilling an ethos of joy at his company and 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 Silicon Valley and the larger business world.
Hsieh used his position at work to integrate levity into a normally
competitive environment. He 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 was
headquartered-and then in Park City, Utah. He gave generously to
his employees and close friends, including throwing infamous Zappos
parties and organizing gatherings at his home, an Airstream trailer
park. When Hsieh died suddenly in November of 2020, the news shook
the business and tech world. Wall Street Journal reporters Kirsten
Grind and Katherine Sayre quickly realized the importance of the
story because of Hsieh's stature in the industry, but as they dug
into the details of his final months, they realized there was a
bigger story to tell. They found that 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 the most venerated, yet vulnerable, business leaders of our
time. It's about our culture's 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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