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March 28, 2024

Zappos chief Tony Hsieh loses a Las Vegas bet

Zappos Bald and Blue Charity Event

L.E. Baskow

The Blue Man Group unveils Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh from within a rolling case during the 10th Annual Zappos Bald and Blue charity event on Wednesday, May 15, 2014.

I had planned to make a pilgrimage next spring. After almost two years of putting it off, I was finally going to make the trek to Las Vegas to see the amazing new downtown that Zappos.com chief Tony Hsieh was inventing from of scratch. Like so many others, I was lured -- enchanted, even -- by the vision of the “Great American Techtopia,” in which urban planning, tech innovation, art, music, and belief in community would come together to create the city of the future, blah, blah, blah.

Well, I was too late.

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