Tony Hsieh, the co-founder of shoe retailer Zappos, died on Friday at the age of 46 after being injured in a house fire, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Hsieh helped turn Zappos into one of the must successful ecommerce startups of the early 2000s, selling the company to Amazon in 2009 in a deal worth $1.2 billion at its closing. Hsieh also earned recognition with an unorthodox decision...
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