Sources and memo: Zappos laid off 300+ employees in January 2023, or ~20% of its workforce, including in customer service, as part of broader layoffs at Amazon
Sources and memo: Zappos laid off over 300 employees in January, or ~20% of its workforce, including in customer service, as part of broader layoffs at Amazon
Kirsten Grind / Wall Street Journal :
Amazon plans to acquire Roomba maker iRobot in a $1.7B all-cash deal; Colin Angle will remain as iRobot's CEO
Everyone's Favorite Robot Cleaning Company Financial Times : Amazon acquires Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7bn Jon Fingas / Engadget : Amazon is buying iRobot, the creator of the Roomba robot vacuum Chan...
Amazon plans to acquire primary health care provider One Medical, which offers in-person, digital, and virtual services, for about $3.9B in an all-cash deal
Amazon is buying One Medical, the so-called “Netflix of primary care,” for $3.9 billion. Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica : Amazon might own your doctor's office after latest acquisition Bloomberg : Ama...
Sources: Zappos CEO Kedar Deshpande is stepping down, a year after replacing Tony Hsieh; Scott Schaefer, VP of finance, will take over as interim CEO
Interviews and documents reveal that in the year before his death, Tony Hsieh was surrounded by people who lived off his fortune and enabled his risky lifestyle
The group that surrounded the late Zappos boss helped sustain his drug habit, protected him from outsiders and lived off his largess Tweets: @roxannetaylor , @chrisfralic , @shibanijoshi , @eliotwb , ...
Interviews and documents reveal that in the year before his death, Tony Hsieh was surrounded by people who lived off his fortune and enabled his risky lifestyle
The group that surrounded the late Zappos boss helped sustain his drug habit, protected him from outsiders and lived off his largess Tweets: @katherinesayre , @sarahfenske , @cduhaime , @lizrappaport ...
Friends and colleagues of Tony Hsieh say he was privately coping with issues of mental health and addiction, made worse by COVID lockdowns, over the past year
a sad tale of someone losing touch with reality and being aided and abetted by so-called friends https://www.forbes.com/... Jeff Atwood / @codinghorror : A disturbing read, but an important reminder t...
GreenPark Sports, a mobile game and sports fan “world” from Chad Hurley and Zappos founder Nick Swinmurn, raises $14M Series A and announces NBA partnership
David Bloom / Forbes : Tweets: @chad_hurley Tweets: Chad Hurley / @chad_hurley : Proud to partner with Adam Silver and the @NBA to bring @greenparksports, our Covid fever dream to life! https://www.f...
A tribute to Tony Hsieh, a notable figure on the startup scene since 1996, and whose life recalls a friendlier and less polarized Internet era
Tony Hsieh, an Internet entrepreneur and former CEO of Zappos, an Amazon company, died from injuries incurred during a house fire when visiting family in Connecticut on November 27, 2020.