The entrepreneur died in a house fire in Connecticut
Tony Hsieh, the entrepreneur who led the online shoe retailer Zappos for more two decades, died Friday at age 46, the company announced. Puoy Premsrirut, a lawyer for Hsieh, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Hsieh died “due to complications from injuries sustained in a house fire” in Connecticut. Hsieh joined the Las Vegas-based startup Zappos — then known as ShoeSite.com — in 1999 and helped grow it into an online retail giant. In 2009, Amazon acquired the company for $1.2 billion but Hsieh remained as CEO until his retirement in August of this year. Also Read: Hollywood’s Notable Deaths of 2020 (Photos) The son of Taiwanese immigrants, Hsieh graduated from Harvard University before embarking on a successful career as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and civic leader.
