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8 min readNov 28, 2020

According to a statement from DTP Companies, which he founded, he died peacefully today surrounded by family members.

Hsieh’s motto was “Delivering Happiness” which he instilled into Zappo’s culture. He is credited with helping revitalize Downtown Las Vegas, and also numerous philanthropic projects.

Tony’s kindness and generosity touched the lives of everyone around him, and forever brightened the world. Delivering happiness was always his mantra, so instead of mourning his transition, we ask you to join us in celebrating his life.

On behalf of all DTP Companies employees and staff, we would like to express our deepest condolences to Tony’s family and friends who have all lost Tony as a cherished loved one, visionary and friend. Tony was highly regarded by all of his fellow friends and colleagues in the tight-knit family at DTP Companies, so this heartbreaking tragedy is one that affects many involved.

We ask that you continue to respect the family’s privacy during this most difficult and challenging time.

He was a humanitarian. A forward thinker who saw the happiness ahead of dollars. He bridged businesses, community and all walks of life towards the end.

Tony was a kind visionary. He helped revitalize DTLV and believed in people’s passions.

There is no human that met Tony and didn’t fall in love with his humanity.”

Hsieh was often called a visionary, but he didn’t start that way. He was once said his passion for business didn’t begin with shoes, but with earthworms. When that didn’t pay off, he tried other things.

After graduating from Harvard, he created and sold a website with his roommate and made $265 million. After that, he invested that money into Zappos back in 1999.

The retailer, which started out purely selling shoes, expanded its empire to include everything from handbags to clothing and accessories. Its headquarters were moved to Henderson in 2004, and it was eventually bought by Amazon in 2009 for around $1.2 billion.

Hseigh stepped down as Zappos’ CEO back in August 2020.

He also founded DTP in 2012. The initiative put $350 million into real estate, entertainment and tech startups around Fremont Street in Downtown Las Vegas.

Gov. Steve Sisolak expressed his condolences in a Tweet Friday night:

Tony Hsieh played a pivotal role in helping transform Downtown Las Vegas. Kathy and I send our love and condolences to Tony’s family and friends during this difficult time https://t.co/7TXBUDWZe0

— Governor Sisolak (@GovSisolak) November 28, 2020
Derek Stevens, owner of two Downtown Las Vegas properties, Tweeted:

Supporting this City and the people within it, Tony Hsieh changed the landscape of Downtown Las Vegas. Our community will miss him greatly, rest in peace. I will miss him greatly.

Tony Hsieh, the brilliant and big-hearted Zappos.com luminary who revolutionized the shoe business and built one of the most innovative companies in modern history, has died. He was 46.

Hsieh’s family confirmed his death tonight in a text message to friends, noting that Tony’s generous spirit touched the lives of countless people and that he left an indelible mark on the world.

Details surrounding Hsieh’s passing are unknown.

Hsieh, a serial entrepreneur, co-founded Zappos in 1999 and grew it into a blockbuster business before selling it to Amazon in 2009.

Delivering happiness was the executive’s mantra. As he built Zappos, Hsieh’s chief goal was to redefine the meaning of company culture. From the beginning, his singular vision set the company apart as a pioneer in footwear e-commerce and corporate America.

Hsieh, who retired and stepped down from the Zappos helm this summer, told FN last year how much the company had evolved since it was founded two decades ago.

A lot of our growth and innovation moving forward will be based on thinking about what we’re in the business of differently,” Hsieh told FN last year, when Zappos celebrated its 20th anniversary. “We used to say we’re a service company that just happens to sell shoes, and now it’s turned into: We’re a service company that just happens to sell blank.”

The Zappos origin story is a familiar one — Hsieh shared it in his speaking engagements and in the pages of his New York Times best-seller, “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose.” And the 100,000-plus visitors who have toured Zappos’ headquarters have been regaled with the tale of a fateful phone call.

After Swinmurn latched onto the idea of selling shoes online, he left a voicemail with Hsieh’s San Francisco venture capital fund, Venture Frogs, hooking him with one factoid: “It was the fact that 5 percent of a $40 billion shoe business was already being done through mail order,” Swinmurn told FN during a 2009 interview. “That was my big statistic. People were already buying shoes without trying them on.”

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Then, after another call to the Nordstrom department store in San Francisco, Fred Mossler eventually jumped on board, and together the new team set out to change the industry.

Zappos was a pioneer in free shipping and returns, and it didn’t take long for the concept to take hold as e-commerce took off.

In 2009, Zappos was acquired by online behemoth Amazon.com Inc. for 10 million shares of Amazon stock, which, at the time of the deal, Hsieh said was valued at about $1.2 billion.

While many market watchers celebrated the marriage, they also speculated that the new parent could impose its own culture on the new division. But true to the initial agreement, Zappos has continued to operate separately from Amazon, maintaining its own leadership team and unique character.

Several years into the Amazon partnership, Hsieh launched The Downtown Project, an initiative to revitalize downtown Las Vegas.

The goal, Hsieh explained at FN’s 2013 CEO Summit, was to create a neighborhood that is walkable and community-focused. The Downtown Project is even investing in individuals, helping them realize their dreams of starting small businesses. “We are thinking of the city as a startup,” he said. “We want it to be the anti-Strip — with bars and coffee shops.”

In 2015, the company did away with managers in favor of a form of self-organization called holacracy.

In a blog post at the time, Hsieh wrote, “Like all the bold steps we’ve done in the past, it feels a little scary, but it also feels like exactly the type of thing that only a company such as Zappos would dare to attempt at this scale.”

Since its early days, Zappos has functioned as something of an incubator for testing theories about corporate culture and productivity — long before those ideas became the buzzwords they are today. Much of the credit for that lies with Hsieh.

She’s a wonderful human being. She’s caring, she’s loving. She’s the type to help anybody in the time of need,” Anzalone said. “She’s the love of my life.”

Then, tragedy struck.

“We were falling in love, and everything was going great, and then in June she got, she started getting sick,” he said.

Doctors diagnosed Alysia with leukemia. Soon, she needed to be airlifted to a Salt Lake City hospital. Her medical staff feared there wasn’t much time.

“The day before they airlifted her, she told the nurses that she wanted to marry me,” Anazalone said. “Because we thought she wasn’t going to make it.”

Photos show a hospital bedside wedding before Alysia was taken to Salt Lake City for treatment.

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“I was married for about an hour, hour and a half, and she was ripped out of my arms and taken to Utah, and I thought I was never going to see her again,” he said.

Thankfully, Alysia was able to recover. But soon, Daniel realized the meaning of his vows, “for better or for worse.”

“Financially it’s been hard,” he said.

Daniel says he was laid off when the pandemic started, and his unemployment has ran out.

But the bills keep piling up. His wife needs constant trips to Salt Lake City, and a bone marrow transplant.

While it appears Alysia’s daughter will be a match, he says the process is lengthy and expensive.

“I’m not sure how we are going to make it through this process,” he said. “I’m just trying to keep it together as much as I can you know? Trying to keep a strong face for the kids.”

Like so many other families in this pandemic, Daniel has found himself in a position he never dreamed of.

“I’ve never been the type to ask for hands outs I guess… I have to lose my pride and ask for help,” he said.

So instead of presents this holiday season, Daniel says his new bride’s health, is the only gift he needs.

“My Christmas wish is for my wife to get her bone marrow transplant, and for no complications, and for her to have her next chance at life,” he said.

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