Nick zappos biography
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Nick Swinmurn, Tony Hsieh, and Zappos (Internet Biographies)
From Booklist
The titles in the Internet Biographies series feature people who are far from household names, but the Internet businesses they began should be very familiar to a young adult audience. Aside from a few pages covering the early life of each entrepreneur, the books are devoted to each subject’s professional ups and downs in beginning and running their companies, with little attention to their anställda lives. Nick Swinmurn, Tony Hsieh, and Zappos discusses the popular online shoe business and its employee culture, which emphasizes delivering “WOW through service.” Each book includes color photographs and sidebars on related topics and concludes with a fact sheet with biographical resultat and a thorough time line. While not the most exciting reads, these succeed in showing how ordinary people can take a good idea and turn it into a business used by people all over the world. Grades 7-10
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How Zappos Went from an Unpopular Idea to $1.2 Billion in Just 10 Years
Updated 4/5/2021
The success story of Zappos...
A business idea that came to fruition after an unsuccessful shoe shopping expedition at the mall was bought out at a $1.2 billion value just 10 years later.
Nick Swinmurn went shoe shopping for a pair of Airwalk Desert boots. He found the color he wanted, but not the size. Then he found a size that fit, but not in the color he wanted. Unimpressed, Nick left the shopping mall, later to quit his job and founded what is today known as Zappos.
In 1999, Nick had this idea that no investor wanted to touch. Selling shoes online. But this did not stop him. He had done his research. Meeting Venture Frogs, Tony Hsieh’s investment company, he delivered his pitch in three sentences:
“Footwear is a $40 billion industry in the United States, of which catalog sales make up $2 billion. It is likely that e-commerce will continue to grow. And it is likely that •
Nick Swinmurn
Many people probably think it was Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh who founded one of the largest footwear retailers in the United States. It wasn't. 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. My father was an engineer for the same company for 30 years, and my mom was a teacher. We laugh because we weren't sure where my interest in business came from. But my parents encouraged me to do entrepreneurial things. When I was in college, they were willing to co-sign a lease so I could open a salad bar, but the building owner expected me to take over $35,000 in equipment debt that he had, so I said no to the deal.
I majored in film studies at U.C. Santa Barbara and graduated in 1995, but didn't know what I wanted to do. So I took a job w
Nick Swinmurn
Many people probably think it was Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh who founded one of the largest footwear retailers in the United States. It wasn't. 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. My father was an engineer for the same company for 30 years, and my mom was a teacher. We laugh because we weren't sure where my interest in business came from. But my parents encouraged me to do entrepreneurial things. When I was in college, they were willing to co-sign a lease so I could open a salad bar, but the building owner expected me to take over $35,000 in equipment debt that he had, so I said no to the deal.
I majored in film studies at U.C. Santa Barbara and graduated in 1995, but didn't know what I wanted to do. So I took a job w