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“We want people to contribute more than they take,” the eccentric boss told Las Vegas Weekly. “For some people, it might be cooking for everyone. For others it might be playing music.”
“I see my neighbors a lot more now than I did when living in a house in the suburbs or living in an apartment building,” Hsieh told the Las Vegas Review Journal.
The internet entrepreneur lived in 10 places, including a luxury 23rd-floor condominium, before moving into the trailer, which he considers his favorite so far.
“I care more about experiences than stuff,” he says in the video below.
Ever the unconventional chief exec, Hsieh works for just $36,000 a year in exchange for the autonomy to run his company (which was acquired by Amazon for $850 million in 2009) how he wants, according to the New York Times.
Zappos, which makes regular appearances on Forbes’ annual Best Companies to Work For list, eschews traditional hierarchy for a self-management system called “Holacracy” in which its 1,500 employees define their own jobs, salaries and have a say in how the company runs.
The son of Taiwanese immigrants and Harvard-educated, Hsieh sold his first company, LinkExchange, to Microsoft for $265 million, the Times reported.
He is also the founder of the Downtown Project, a (somewhat controversial) effort to revitalize Las Vegas’ historic downtown. He invested $350 million to help rebuild the district, including a $50 million investment in local businesses to help spur the neighborhood and make the area more walkable, Hsieh told ABC News.
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