Tony Hsieh (1973 – 2020), longtime Zappos CEO
Tony Hsieh was the longtime CEO of Zappos, who built the online shoe retailer into a billion-dollar business.Hsieh was a recent Harvard graduate when he founded LinkExchange, an early internet advertising network. In 1998, two and a half years after he founded it, Hsieh sold LinkExchange to Microsoft for $265 million.