Tony Hsieh in 2013. He led Zappos, the online shoe retailer, for two decades.
Tony Hsieh, the technology entrepreneur and venture capitalist who built Zappos into a $1 billion internet shoes and clothing powerhouse, died on Friday. He was 46.
The cause was injuries suffered in a house fire on Nov. 18 in New London, Conn., according to Megan Fazio, a spokeswoman for the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, a revitalization effort which Mr. Hsieh oversaw.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/o...imes&smtyp=cur