This Friday, virtually join Tony, co-host Jenn Lim, and special guests including Actress and two-time Golden Glove Silver-Medalist Boxer, Jillkerry Ward, Melanie Notkin of SavvyAuntie.com, Tony’s literary agent Lisa Queen, Greg Besner of Second Market and more, as they stream live from the Trump Soho in New York City. Grab a drink, snuggle up with [...]
May 2010
Author and Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh, shared an excerpt from the pages of Delivering Happiness with The Huffington Post, his full article and excerpt which can read below. Over the past 10 years, Zappos.com, the company where I am CEO, has grown from almost no sales to over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually, [...]
As you may all know already, Delivering Happiness and Livestrong have partnered in an effort to raise $33,333 by June 7, which just happens to be Doug Ulman’s 33rd birthday and the launch of the Delivering Happiness book. While in Miami for a Delivering Happiness Virtual Happy Hour, we had the unique opportunity to meet [...]
Fun fact for today: Being a part of a group that meets regularly increases your happiness by the same amount as doubling your income (as researched by Harvard Sociologist and Author of Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam). Sounds about right to us! And that’s why today we are thrilled to announce our partnership with Meetup Everywhere [...]
This Friday evening (May 21st), join Tony, co-hosts Jenn Lim and Amy Martin, special guests including LIVESTRONG CEO Doug Ulman , Jennifer 8 Lee, Michael Cornthwaite, Melissa Lacitignola and more, live from the Downtown Cocktail Room in Las Vegas. Bring questions, a drink, and tune in via live stream. Last week, hug-happy Espree Devora and [...]
Big Omaha, for those of you that don’t know is an annual event that brings together 500-600 entrepreneurs each year, with the simple goal of inspiring everyone and anyone who attends the event. Encouraging them to chase after what makes them passionate. Tony was among the featured speakers at the event and everyone that attended [...]
Loïc Le Meur , founder of social software application Seesmic.com and the LeWeb.net conference, takes a 5-mile run with Tony in London then sits him down for this breathtaking (get it?) video interview. Loïc picks Tony’s brain about things like mistakes he’s made along the way in his career and what new entrepreneurs can learn from [...]
Last week, special guests Adam Laufer, Joey Vanas, Sarah Nisperos and a kangaroo from the local zoo talked all things happy and toasted with Tony and the Delivering Happiness team atop Plunge Lounge at the Gansevoort Hotel in Miami. Yes, we did type kangaroo (but now that we think of it, we’re not sure the [...]
From now until 11:00pm PST, this statement would be false. Now that the giveaway is over, this statement is now true again. (Sorry, the following giveaway is over, but if you signed up and gave us your information on 5/10/10, a book is coming your way!) Delivering Happiness is giving away a free book over [...]
Last week, best-selling author Dave Logan stopped by our Happy Hour at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley to talk tribal leadership, startup investor Dave McClure talked about geeks on a plane, and Tony’s parents talked about, well, embarrassing stories from Tony’s youth. Funny faces were made, magic tricks were played and all answered [...]