Posts Tagged ‘Tony Hsieh

Recently 37signals opened their new office. It’s beautiful and functional, with public spaces so you can chat and hang out, and private spaces when you really need some peace and quiet – all beautifully designed. Looks like the perfect office. The perfect culture. But is it really? I just finished reading Delivering Happiness by Tony [...]

Say you just moved to Silicon Valley, and you’re looking for a new job in the tech industry. What Silicon Valley CEO should you work for? Cubeduel, a side project of Urbanspoon co-founder Adam Doppelt and RescueTime co-founder Tony Wright, says it has the answer. Cubeduel connects to a user’s LinkedIn account and then asks [...]

If a company’s success can be linked with its CEO’s popularity, then Twitter is going to have a very bright future.  New rankings concerning Silicon Valley CEOs are out, and Dick Costolo, who replaced Twitter cofounder Evan Williams in October, came in first place. It’s of course possible to like a clueless person or respect [...]

Many of the 100+ interviews we have done this year were on the subject of e-commerce, and we have spoken to e-commerce managers from many well known retailers such as Zappos, John Lewis and M&S, as well as industry experts like Dr Mike Baxter.  I’ve compiled our e-commerce-themed interviews from 2010, all 26 of them… [...]

Zappos and Gilt Groupe are two of the hottest e-commerce companies around, but each attributes different factors to their success. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and Gilt Groupe Chairman Susan Lyne described the “hypergrowth” of their e-commerce companies during a panel at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. It was an interesting comparison of two [...]


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