During one of my brief periods back in New York, a friend contacted me and said he had a pass to an Economist conference he couldn’t use. I went and wound up meeting two people who would change the course of Venture for America—Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, and Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn. In startup circles, Tony Hsieh is a bit of a legend. He sold his first company to Microsoft for over $250 million in his twenties, then became the lead investor in and CEO of Zappos.com, which was acquired by Amazon for over $1 billion. His book Delivering Happiness, which describes how culture can be a
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