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Tony Hsieh's one weird trick to get friendship

Reconciling their accounts, one word rises up: tragedy. Acco...
peach partner
  12/04/20
Jfc, very sad and pathetic
Metal saffron reading party new version
  12/04/20
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Racy rose newt
  12/04/20
Damn. Everyone has their demons
Exhilarant Theater
  12/04/20
WHIP ITS are a pathetic thing to be demonized by bro
peach partner
  12/04/20
Those were a symptom, not the disease. They are pretty fun t...
Exhilarant Theater
  12/04/20
Didn't Elvis do something like this? Just paid his crew of ...
bright naked boistinker internal respiration
  12/04/20
wht a moron, he cld have gone insane in EE or asia
Aquamarine dilemma
  12/04/20
Doesn't sound like the source of his unhappiness was being i...
bearded lilac main people brunch
  12/04/20
🍷🍺πŸ₯ƒ=☠️
Nubile foreskin
  12/04/20
How do you get this job
Histrionic fantasy-prone library idiot
  12/04/20
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beta-caryophyllene
  10/26/25
delivering happiness tp
screenman
  10/26/25


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Date: December 4th, 2020 2:48 PM
Author: peach partner

Reconciling their accounts, one word rises up: tragedy. According to his friends and family, Hsieh’s personal struggles took a dramatic turn south over the past year, especially as the Covid-19 pandemic curtailed the non-stop action that Hsieh seemingly craved. According to numerous sources with direct knowledge, Hsieh, always a heavy drinker, veered into frequent drug use, notably nitrous oxide. Friends also cited mental health battles, as Hsieh often struggled with sleep and feelings of loneliness — traits that drove his fervor for purpose and passion in life. By August, it was announced that he had “retired” from the company he built, and which Amazon had let him run largely autonomously since paying $1.2 billion for Zappos in 2009. Friends and family members, understanding the emerging crisis, attempted interventions over the past few months to try to get him sober.

Instead, these old friends say, Hsieh retreated to Park City, where he surrounded himself with “yes men,” paying dearly for the privilege. With a net worth that Forbes recently estimated, conservatively, at $700 million, Hsieh’s offer was simple: he would double the amount of their highest-ever salary. All they had to do was move to Park City with him and “be happy,” according to two sources with personal knowledge of Hsieh’s months in Utah. “In the end, the king had no clothes, and the sycophants wouldn’t say a fucking word,” said a close friend who tried to stage one of the interventions, with the help of Hsieh’s family. “People took that deal, from somebody who was obviously sick,” encouraging his drug use, either tacitly or actively.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/angelauyeung/2020/12/04/tony-hsiehs-american-tragedy-the-self-destructive-last-months-of-the-zappos-visionary/

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Date: December 4th, 2020 2:55 PM
Author: Metal saffron reading party new version

Jfc, very sad and pathetic

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Date: December 4th, 2020 2:58 PM
Author: Racy rose newt

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Date: December 4th, 2020 2:59 PM
Author: Exhilarant Theater

Damn. Everyone has their demons

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Date: December 4th, 2020 3:10 PM
Author: peach partner

WHIP ITS are a pathetic thing to be demonized by bro

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Date: December 4th, 2020 3:35 PM
Author: Exhilarant Theater

Those were a symptom, not the disease. They are pretty fun though

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Date: December 4th, 2020 3:12 PM
Author: bright naked boistinker internal respiration

Didn't Elvis do something like this? Just paid his crew of bros to hang out with him in Graceland until he died?

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Date: December 4th, 2020 3:13 PM
Author: Aquamarine dilemma

wht a moron, he cld have gone insane in EE or asia

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Date: December 4th, 2020 3:36 PM
Author: bearded lilac main people brunch

Doesn't sound like the source of his unhappiness was being in the wrong city you retard

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Date: December 4th, 2020 3:43 PM
Author: Nubile foreskin

🍷🍺πŸ₯ƒ=☠️

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Date: December 4th, 2020 3:46 PM
Author: Histrionic fantasy-prone library idiot

How do you get this job

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Date: October 26th, 2025 7:19 PM
Author: beta-caryophyllene



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Date: October 26th, 2025 7:21 PM
Author: screenman

delivering happiness tp



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