"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
jace true or super true how many times were you called a semen demon for the amount of penises you were sucking while in san fran in the 90s
cuz i heard it was allllllllllllllotttttt like you invented using pronouns to feel woke
EXCLUSIVE: Listen as firefighters describe Tony Hsieh being 'barricaded' inside shed during house fire before the 'unresponsive' Zappos CEO was pulled out from blaze in new dispatch tape
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ouse-fire.html
EXCLUSIVE: Colleagues of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh fear his addiction to nitrous oxide whippets, burning candles and Grey Goose vodka could be behind explosion that led to his death - as it's revealed he was 'barricaded' in a shed when blaze broke out
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ouse-fire.html
Candles and Nitrous Oxide don't mix well.
R.I.P.
There's an old rule about burns and age. Basically you take the percentage of your body affected by 3rd degree or worse burns, and add that to your age. If you hit 140 or more, you're pretty much dead. Baux score it's called.
Weird flex. Fucky way to go out.
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Daily Mail delivers again. They really give no shits and just print everything.
According to the last article X-Factor posted, Tony was a drug addict and alcoholic, who was obsessed with nitrous oxide and candles.
Some of you old-schoolers might remember when neverwin was going through his whippet phase, and was doing them on radio, making a repeatedly annoying sound. Micon was too high to care. I was super close to hanging up and quitting the show for the night, but he finally stopped after I told them I was seriously about to be done. Good times.
Apparently he also lived in an Airstream trailer, despite having like $840 million.
The current working theory is that he passed out from too much nitrous oxide, then the candles ignited, and by the time they got in there to rescue him, it was too late.
By all accounts he was a nice guy and did a lot for people, but his own personal life was out of control.
Also that Rachel Brown chick who owned the house may have been the one he referred to as his "soul mate". He claimed he was going to visit "family and my soul male" before traveling to Connecticut. Rachael rose from a temporary phone rep to a high level manager at the company, so it would make sense that it was largely due to her relationship with him. She looks like an average woman in her 40s, so props to him for dating a regular gal rather than finding some young hot model type who would be using him for $.
steve-o was also a notorious no2 addict and has been transparent about it and his path to recovery. its definitely a thing.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
Yeah I figured it would go this way. It’s why I specifically said candle. Didn’t expect the nitrous angle. Addicts and their candles. If you’re curious if someone is an addict, look for big ass candles and dried wax somewhere. They are so multi use for various addictions.
We used to do whip-it’s in high school on spring break in Panama City. They got you high for a very, very short period and that was that. Can’t imagine getting addicted to such.
By virtue of this thread I broke the news to her. Her instant reaction was, “I wouldn’t be where I am today without Zappos”.
He partially subsidized her apartment because it was located close to the old city hall/Zappos HQ. Free medical, free food. It went on and on.
The employees loved Zappos. Hsieh kept Amazon out of their hair. Shit rapidly unwound toward the end of Hsieh’s reign. IT all bailed. They were all extremely loyal to one another in the after life. Great great network of ex colleagues. Zappos was like a college experience and is remembered fondly.
I jumped all over you when you posted this.
You nailed it.
I’m stunned. Such a waste.
Last edited by Sanlmar; 12-02-2020 at 07:07 PM.
sad to hear a guy like this died...remember reading some of your musings when ur daughter worked there...pretty cool that somebody who was undergrad at harvard "got it"...
the shit druff talked about, the no bosses thing probably went a little too far, but sounds like the guy's heart was in the right place...
treating employees as human...fucking novel concept...first job outta college my boss was like that...woulda taken a bullet for the guy...stayed outta our hair, let us do what we needed to do how we wanted to do it, always there if we needed help...but in return you couldnt be a fucking moron...i loved it...
Next drama: https://www.tmz.com/2020/12/02/ex-za...o-will-family/
He died without a will. He had no wife or kids.
His $840 million fortune will go to the closest relative(s).
Not sure if his parents are still alive. If they are, they'd get it.
The order (with no will is): spouse, children, parents, siblings, and nieces/nephews, grandchildren, grandparents, aunts/uncles.
I felt bad posting this, because by all accounts, Hsieh was a good guy and meant well.
Unfortunately, I've seen it all too many times where groundbreaking innovators have major psychological flaws as a side effect. In fact, I think these psychological "flaws" are partially what enable them to be as good as they are at what they do.
What was good about Tony Hsieh was also what was bad about Tony Hsieh.
Fortunately, Tony's flaws appear to have been mostly destructive to himself, and not others. The same can't be said for Steve Jobs.
I do hope he's honored in downtown LV with a street name, or something like that. He deserves it, even if he did die while huffing nitrous in a locked shed.
Tony Hsieh’s American Tragedy: The Self-Destructive Last Months Of The Zappos Visionary
https://www.forbes.com/sites/angelau...ppos-visionary
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