Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:49
A BILLION REASONS TO LIVE But Tony Hsieh Died from Addiction 🥲
He was going down a real bad rabbit hole of alcohol and drug abuse, and his family was about to do an intervention, but they were too late and he burned basically to death or basically died from smokinghillation. It's such a tragedy. It's so sad
Hi, Deborah. Thanks for posting this. Tony was truly a legend in the industry. I did not know him, but we all heard Greg stories about, especially customer support, that Zappos provided it. And even from our ecommerce tech perspective, they were so far ahead of the game. In my previous company, we were a mobile commerce technology provider who used to reach out to retailers and sell our license or technology to them
Greg Dickson
@ElasticBD · 4:46
I see two types of people that are really successful in business, people that are obsessive about detail and process and people that have an addictive personality. And there's probably a third one too. The third one, I would call the dreamers where they've got this dream, this idea, this picture of what they want to achieve, but they don't have the skill set to pull it off. And I've seen people persist far too long trying to pursue and make an idea work
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Hans 😊nome
@Hans · 1:30
I don't know what lesson to draw from his passing, except to say that I do tend to veer toward the tough love angle, and I do tend to veer toward the inappropriate you are suggesting, potentially crossing boundaries, right? Potentially crossing boundaries. To love someone or to rescue someone or to help someone who may not want to be helped because that is a question. How do you help someone who doesn't want to be helped? What do you do? And how far do you go?
Timothy Harrington
@aaiou1 · 2:25
Yeah. I remember reading this story about Tony and I've been in the behavioral health space around addictions for nearly 20 years, and what I can can tell you is that the only perfect parents are the ones that don't have kids. Yet the amount of control that one can have over another adult is extremely limited. What is most important is connection. It is not direction. And this is what I teach people who are in a relationship was someone struggling with the experience of addiction