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Itâs called Zappos. A couple of months later, the uber smart 27-year old Hsieh joined the company as its CEO and, well, the rest is history. Today, Zappos is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon (having been acquired for $1.2 billion in 2009) and its roughly 1,500 employees, headquartered in Las Vegas, produce in excess of $2 billion in revenues annually.
Many people probably think it was Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh who founded one of the largest footwear retailers in the United States. It wasnât. The guy who came up with the idea and persuaded Hsieh to invest is Nick Swinmurn, a quiet entrepreneur. His willingness to put success before ego was amply rewarded when Amazon acquired Zappos for $1.2 billion. His story: I was born in England, and we moved to the United States when I was 7.