Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans
When Tony Hsieh, the founder of the online shoe empire Zappos, was a child, he wrote a poem. He placed his words within a drawing of a lurking, menacing octopus with “large, soulless eyes.”
“I am running down my street … a slimy smiling octopus is chasing me,” he wrote. “I try to climb a brown wooden wall. I keep slipping. No one is around to help me.”
