Hsieh, the son of Taiwanese immigrants who raised him in Marin County, Calif., was the founder of Zappos. In “ Happy at Any Cost” (Simon & Schuster), out Tuesday, Grind and co-author Katherine Sayre, colleagues at the Wall Street Journal, tell the devastating story of a brilliant man whose hidden mental illnesses doomed him in a locked-down world. “When the world shut down in March 2020, it took away his life’s whole purpose: being around people.” “He was absolutely a direct casualty of COVID,” author Kirsten Grind told The Post. Hsieh, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, was the founder of Zappos. Three months later, Hsieh was dead, asphyxiated by a fire he sparked inside a locked shed - a coronavirus victim who will never be counted in the pandemic’s official toll. “If he kills himself and everyone else in there from a huge fire,” she said as she departed, “you can’t say you were not warned.” But he waved off her attempts to discuss his precarious mental state. Jewel, who has run a mental health nonprofit in the years since her pop heyday in the 1990s, could see that Hsieh needed help. Dozens of paid hangers-on who lived with him in the mansion he called “the Ranch” seemed oblivious to their bizarre surroundings. NY Post photo compositeįascinated by fire, Hsieh kept hundreds of candles burning throughout the house, while a fire ring in his bedroom blazed with an open flame. The new book “Happy at Any Cost” looks at his downfall. But he was also living an erratic and tragic life of his own, surrounded by flunkies who did little to save him from his demons. As CEO of, Hsieh was heralded for his embrace of employee happiness. Dog droppings lay wherever Hsieh’s treasured terrier, Blizzy, left them - they were “parts of nature,” the tech guru said. Sink and shower faucets ran day and night to evoke the sound of waterfalls. His emaciated frame quivered with excitement as he babbled about plans to start a new country and solve world peace. The floors of the house were covered with empty canisters of nitrous oxide, the mind-altering gas that Hsieh, 46, huffed constantly. When she finally visited him in August of 2020, the scene inside his lavish Park City, Utah, compound terrified her. The COVID-19 pandemic had prevented the famous folk singer from seeing her friend Tony Hsieh - the internet innovator and CEO who aimed to transform corporate America with an ethos of joy - for months. Late Zappos founder Tony Hsieh thought he was becoming a crystal: reportīig sale at Zappos: Family of ex-CEO Tony Hsieh unloading 90 of his Vegas propertiesĬause of fire that killed Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh still a mystery: officials Score up to 60% off boots, shoes, and coats from Zappos Winter Blowout
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