tony hsieh

Equity Monday: HungryPanda raises $70M, trade tensions and cross-border VC

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big

Tony Hsieh, iconic Las Vegas tech entrepreneur, dies aged 46

Tony Hsieh, the former head of Zappos who catapulted the shoe company into the big leagues with a sale to Amazon and then used the proceeds of his success in a huge project kickstarting regeneration o

Vengo, maker of touch-screen vending machines, just collected $7 million in fresh equity funding

Vengo, a six-year-old, Bethpage, New York-based startup that makes touchscreen vending machines for a wide variety of uses and clients, has raised $7 million in new equity funding led by Arcade Beaut

uBeam’s Ultrasound Wireless Charging Is Real, And About To Be Really Funded

What if wireless power at a distance actually worked? It does. uBeam invented a way to wirelessly send energy up to 15 feet away with ultrasound. What if you could slap a wireless charging case on you

Vegas Is In Search Of A Tech City, Not Just A Quick Jackpot

Last week, tens of thousands of people came to Las Vegas for CES, where they spent their time milling around the Convention Center and comparing selfie sticks, fancy TVs and robots, trudging to the

The Future Of Work: Amazon vs. Zappos

Twenty years ago <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hsieh">Tony Hsieh</a> was part of the three-man Harvard team that won the hyper-prestigious ACM Programmming Contest. Five y

Foundation: Tony Hsieh On Building A Great Company Culture

In this new episode of my <a target="_blank" href="http://foundation.kr/">Foundation</a> video series, I talk with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.zappos.com/">Zappos </a>founder <a target="_blank

The Key To Happiness Is Being Yourself (TCTV)

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/screen-shot-2010-11-16-at-11-23-15-pm.png" />We finagled our way on board the <a href="http://zappos.com">Zappos</a> "Happiness Bus" at <a hre

Delivering Happiness: The Rap Video

<img src="//tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/happy-wrap.png" class="shot2">Just when the tech community wet its rap pallette with <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/29/mc-hammer-rocks-a-p

Tony Hsieh Explains Why He Sold Zappos To Amazon Under Pressure From Sequoia

<img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/zapposlogo.png" alt="" />There's an <a href="http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100601/why-i-sold-zappos.html">interesting article up

Memo to Start-ups: You’re Supposed to Be Changing the World, Remember?

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/Far_from_Dull-Dull-630x507-215x173.jpg" width="215" height="173" />I did interviews with most of the TechCrunch50 experts backstage and there

TC50 Backstage: Tony Hsieh on Why You Should Be Changing the World

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/tony-hsieh1-630x419-215x142.jpg" width="215" height="142" />Soft-spoken Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh had some surprisingly harsh criticism for the TC