“Amazon acquires Zappos”

clipped from blogs.zappos.com

Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 From: Tony Hsieh (CEO – Zappos.com) To: All Zappos Employees Subject: Zappos and Amazon

Today is a big day in Zappos history.

This morning, our board approved and we signed what’s known as a “definitive agreement”, in which all of the existing shareholders and investors of Zappos (there [...]

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