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GeekWire Podcast: Tony Hsieh was a legendary entrepreneur who built Zappos and sold the online shoe retailer to Amazon for $1.2 billion in 2009. A new book, "Happy at Any Cost: The Revolutionary Vision and Fatal Quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh," tells the rest of the story of the entrepreneur's life, leading up to his tragic death from injuries sustained in a fire in New London, Conn., in November 2020. Wall Street Journal reporter Kirsten Grind, who wrote the book with her colleague Katherine Sayre, joins us on the GeekWire Podcast to talk about what they discovered in writing the book, and what we can learn from Hsieh’s life.

New website helps streamline Ukraine donation process: Two Seattle tech workers with Ukrainian roots are among a group of volunteers who quickly built a new website called Pledge Ukraine which helps make it easier to send money to more than 100 organizations aiding the war-torn nation. 

UW lands $750K for biotech workforce center: Federal funding will help the University of Washington Bothell open a new center to focus on educating the life science workforce. Read more

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