How Did Tony Hsieh Deliver Happiness
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Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
February 4, 2014 Haofei Chen Xinyue Wang
When Tony Hsieh was nine years old, his dream was to make lots of money by breeding and selling earthworms, so his parents paid $33.45 for a box of mud that contained at least one hundred earthworms. Then he built a “worm box” in his back yard and fed them raw egg yolks; unfortunately, thirty days later, he found that most worms were gone. Hsieh felt bad about failing, but this experience did not stop him on the way to success.
When Hsieh was young, his parents emigrated from Taiwan to the United State; they had high expectations for him, and they hoped he could become a doctor. So they were strict with him, but Hsieh was more interested in running his own business and coming up with different ways to make money; more money meant he could live the way he liked.
When he was a child, he did a lot of garage sales during his elementary school years. Then in middle school, he had a newspaper …show more content…
Soon, he got a message from a man named Nick, who said he had just set up a website called “shoesite,” the birth of Zappos. Then he began to operate this website and used more money running the website. At the same time, Hsieh became interested in poker. By learning to play poker, he learned some experiences that can be used in business. Then he decided to do something more meaningful，so he decided to invest in many different fields and lost a lot of money. He realized that investing in the fields he did not know at all is a really bad idea. Running this time, he also went to Zappos and met with the employees every two weeks to give them some suggestions. Although there were few people working, the small team still made big
1:30-2:20 p.m.
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
February 4, 2014 Haofei Chen Xinyue Wang
When Tony Hsieh was nine years old, his dream was to make lots of money by breeding and selling earthworms, so his parents paid $33.45 for a box of mud that contained at least one hundred earthworms. Then he built a “worm box” in his back yard and fed them raw egg yolks; unfortunately, thirty days later, he found that most worms were gone. Hsieh felt bad about failing, but this experience did not stop him on the way to success.
When Hsieh was young, his parents emigrated from Taiwan to the United State; they had high expectations for him, and they hoped he could become a doctor. So they were strict with him, but Hsieh was more interested in running his own business and coming up with different ways to make money; more money meant he could live the way he liked.
When he was a child, he did a lot of garage sales during his elementary school years. Then in middle school, he had a newspaper …show more content…
Soon, he got a message from a man named Nick, who said he had just set up a website called “shoesite,” the birth of Zappos. Then he began to operate this website and used more money running the website. At the same time, Hsieh became interested in poker. By learning to play poker, he learned some experiences that can be used in business. Then he decided to do something more meaningful，so he decided to invest in many different fields and lost a lot of money. He realized that investing in the fields he did not know at all is a really bad idea. Running this time, he also went to Zappos and met with the employees every two weeks to give them some suggestions. Although there were few people working, the small team still made big