Why I Sold Zappos - http://www.inc.com/magazin...
Jun 7, 2010
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"But on the five-person board, only two of us -- Alfred Lin, our CFO and COO, and myself -- were completely committed to Zappos's culture. This made it likely that if the economy didn't improve, the board would fire me and hire a new CEO who was concerned only with maximizing profits. The threat was never made overtly, but I could tell that was the direction things were going."
- Bret Taylor
Talk about clueless: "Some board members had always viewed our company culture as a pet project -- "Tony's social experiments," they called it."
- Todd Hoff