"Delivering Happiness"

Since childhood, Tony Hsieh, the author of “Delivering Happiness”, was eager to be a businessman. In his book, he told stories on how he succeeded in his life , and how he got over all the  difficulties that he faced in his path to the money world.

Hsieh, the 36-years old American and the CEO of Zappos started his book by elaborating about his childhood. The first part of the book was almost about Hsieh’s early life, and his passion to  business. He switched from focusing on his musical instruments to try running small businesses. He failed some times and other times achieved his goals. In the first chapter of “Delivering Happiness”, you will read how Hsieh and his colleagues started their first company which was called LinkExchange, and how they gained millions of dollars from starting this company. From the first chapter, I have learned many things, especially LinkExchange’s story, when Tony and his co-workers got an offer from Yahoo to buy the website with 1 million dollars, Tony and his friends postponed the transaction because they thought it would be better and it may worth more. Later on they achieved what they were looking for, the money and the success.

Also from the first part of the book, I have learned that to enter the market and challenge it with a new business, saving capitals are got to be made for applying projects and ideas. A businessman should not be too happy with the early earnings from the business by spending them on whatever.

In the second chapter Tony was explaining how he could create a new company from zero, until Zappos worth more than 1 billion dollar. Also, Tony published some of the internal e-mails that he used to send to the workers, in order to motivate the staff, and when the company was going to be bankrupt.

In the third chapter, Tony talked about how he dealt with the PR news and the media coverage that got bigger and bigger at Zappos. In his books, he explained in the last part how he was preparing for the press conferences and public events. He had three rules for his talks one of them is to tell real stories to people in his speeches and talks. In the third part, he told stories about how the Amazons buyout been done, and how he was not able to tell the employees directly. 

In short, I really enjoyed reading this book. It gives you lessons in how to not hurry for the future, and don’t follow what is being decided for you already. If you are a teacher, a pilot. a Doctor, and you find yourself in the business world, and technology industry, don’t hesitate to switch to what you want regardless to your background or even for your parents interests.  This book has also inspired me to think about the future and how to think creatively. I read the book as if it is a story, and it really is.