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27. Tony Hsieh
CEO, Zappos.com
Age: 35
Marital status: Single
Highest Education: Bachelor's degree
Hsieh ran a pizza business at Harvard and sold his first company, ad network LinkExchange, to Microsoft for $265 million at age 24. He joined online shoe bazaar Zappos as a consultant and investor in 1999; the next year he became CEO.
He's grown it from $1.6 million in sales to $1 billion, largely by encouraging fierce customer loyalty (Zappos has free, eerily fast shipping both ways). In July, Amazon said it would acquire it for $850 million.
Test of faith: He offers $2,000 to any new recruit to leave the company during training to weed out the half-hearted.
Source: [Fortune]
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