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The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh

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Billionaire Zappos founder and tech CEO Tony Hsieh was obsessed with happiness and helping people achieve it. After running “the world’s happiest company” for two decades, Hsieh created his experimental community — The Downtown Project — dedicated to pursuing happiness. But what do Tony's life and death reveal about Silicon Valley’s obsession with re-imagining how society functions? "A gripping ta... more

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Nastaran chats with Dan Lyons, best-selling author and screenwriter for HBO's Silicon Valley, about the Tony Hsieh story and the highs and lows of tech company culture.

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What remains of Tony’s utopian, llama-shaped vision for a neighbourhood?

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Once again, Tony finds himself at the center of a toxic culture characterized by suspicion and silence. Except this time, there’s no escape.

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The feverish excitement around The Downtown Project begins to give way to frustration, confusion, and disappointment. Tony's utopian vision is concealing something toxic. And it isn’t just businesses and investors at stake. All of a sudden, so are pe... more

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4.1 out of 5 stars from 212 ratings
  • Gives podcasting a bad name

    Shallow one sided reporting by an apathetic reporter just desperately searching for any data point to confirm preexisting bias. Gives podcasting a bad name. Tony Hsieh’s story is an important story to tell and this is a lazy and sad disgrace. Totally misses the mark.

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    Ivánlh
    United States9 months ago
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    You’d think someone with such a posh accent wouldn’t continually mispronounce so many workaday words. Yeesh It became quite distracting and annoying, had to quit

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    oldjohnhall
    United Statesa year ago
  • Needlessly over-produced

    I am fascinated by Tony Hsieh and this story, but the music put under so much of the narration and interviews was so distracting, it made for an unnecessarily difficult listening experience. NATs, transitional elements I can get behind but the elements used did not make sense with what else we were hearing. I really wanted to like this!

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    A_rob
    United Statesa year ago
  • Stunning story

    I never followed the Zappos story, but this is a crazy, fascinating, tragic story of a modern delusion. I would give this 5 stars across the board, but — and I hate to say this — because it's such an....aMeRiCaN story, the British pronunciations (starting with Barack Obama) and the extremely cold, unempathetic interviewing of the homeless women convince me that there could have been a better narrator.

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    Whitney McCaskill
    United Statesa year ago
  • US weekly of “documentaries”

    So shallow. Very interesting story, but there is literally no investigation. Feels like an English person who has no idea of general pronunciations etc is reading a Wikipedia page. With she would have studied up a bit more.

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    LuciaJames
    United Statesa year ago

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