close Video Liz Claman remembers Tony Hsieh FOX Business’s Liz Claman remembers the life and career of former Zappos CEO and visionary Tony Hsieh. The Connecticut home where former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh was trapped in a fire reportedly belonged to his rumored girlfriend, a longtime employee of the shoe e-tailer and a prominent cellist. Hsieh, 46, was overcome by smoke inside a shed attached to a $1.3 million home in New London that he’d purchased in August for Rachael Brown, according to Fox 61. Brown is said to have been Hsieh’s girlfriend — and one of his closest confidantes as a high-ranking Zappos employee, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported. She was recruited to the company when it moved from San Francisco to Las Vegas in 2004 — five years after it first launched — and headed its first training team, the outlet said. The Zappos website credits Brown as one of the “women who’ve changed … [Read more...] about Zappos founder Tony Hsieh died from fire at home of rumored girlfriend: report
