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The last days of Tony Hsieh https://www.forbes.com/sites/angelauyeung/2020/12/04/tony-hsiehs-american-tragedy-the-self-destructive-last-months-of-the-zappos-visionary/?sh=3f7993014f22
A tragic story. As he was spiraling into drugs and mental illness, the people around him - all on his payroll - said and did nothing - exploiting him till the end. Only old friends of Tony Hsieh like the singer Jewel tried to reach and help him.
It's not totally clear what happened but it sounds like the people Tony Hsieh was staying with in Connecticut left him to die in a burning house. Unless it was some crazy secure safe room or something, there's no reason several people couldn't get thru a locked interior door.
I've got to believe more journalists are investigating this story. Nothing about Hsieh's death added up. People who betrayed him need to be brought into the light and held accountable.
Let this be a cautionary lesson to us. We had all better have people in our inner circle who can tell us things we don't want to hear.
It's also a warning about the downsides of failing to mature in life: "Their definitions of happiness had changed—a feeling echoed by several Hsieh friends, who said that they had married and started families, while Hsieh remained an extremely rich Peter Pan."
Life as a single person in your 40s or 50s is not at all what younger people might imagine. Some thrive as singles at that age, but many are extremely unhappy - far unhappier than they let on to most people. The nights out, fancy dinners, travel all lose their allure over time.
Tony Hsieh's life and death reveals another tragic irony of the human condition: those who are able to most profoundly touch others in positive ways are often deeply wounded themselves.