My commute is… about a 15-to-20 minute walk from Fergusons. Hsieh starts his day by clearing his “yesterbox.” I don’t worry about the ones that come in that day unless they’re time-sensitive.
Speaking of email… you can check out, which is a one-page I wrote up for a system that I use, which is: Unless an email can’t wait 24 hours, each day my email to-do list is to respond to the prior day’s emails. Mornings are spent focused on catching up on email. I generally try not to have meetings in the mornings. That will tell you my every day for the last few years. But given Hsieh’s successful track record as an entrepreneur and CEO, it seems to be working.īelow, Hsieh shares more about his daily routine. Now he starts each workday in the community-oriented space before even moving over to his company headquarters. They bought and renovated a motel across the street called Fergusons, added a pool and community kitchen, and combined the two. Hsieh developed a version of the village five years ago, when he and several friends installed their Airstream trailers in an empty parking lot.
Regarding his aforementioned Airstream: It’s one of about 20 that populate Hsieh’s tailor-made community in downtown Las Vegas, which also features a public coworking space, 10 tiny houses, 35 residents, 15 dogs, five cats, a sloth, and his roaming alpaca. Hence, his near mythic focus on corporate culture, which he expounds on in his bestselling book, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose. The passion and excitement were no longer there.” When he started at Zappos, he was determined to prevent that sort of waning enthusiasm. “I just didn’t look forward to going to the office. “The company culture just went completely downhill,” he later told the New York Times of why he decided to sell. Hsieh joined Zappos in 1999, not long after he sold his first company, LinkExchange, which he founded in 1996, to Microsoft for $265 million.
After all, he explains, “I live in an Airstream and have an alpaca that wanders around.” “I’m probably an eight-to-eight-and-a-half,” CEO Tony Hsieh says of his own ranking. The question is meant to determine whether you’re a good fit for the online retailer’s company culture, which, among other things, requires that you be at least a little bit strange. If you were to interview for a job at Zappos, a recruiter might ask you to rate how weird you are on a scale of one to 10. Our series What Do People Do All Day? takes a look at the work life, lunch habits, and downtime of people across different industries.
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