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The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires)  - The Investor’s Podcast Network

Classic 07: Billionaire Tony Hsieh's Book - Delivering Happiness

The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network

Stig Brodersen

Education, Investing, Business

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: 19:06 - How to make customer service your corporate vision and strategy. 21:08 - How to make your corporate culture your competitive advantage. 27:39 - Why your organization should write a culture book. 42:17 - How a CEO can fire his board of directors. 48:04 - The 4 factors to sustainable happiness. *Disclaimer: Slight timestamp discrepancies may occur due to podcast platform differences. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, and the other community members. Tony Hsieh’s book: Delivering Happiness – Read reviews of this book, Read our free executive summary of the book, Delivering Happiness. The Investors Podcast’s Corporate Culture Scholarship open to undergraduate and graduate students. New to the show? Check out our We Study Billionaires Starter Packs. 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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to TIP.

0:02.7

On today's classic episode, press the nigh read Delivering Happiness by Tony Shea,

0:07.4

which was one of our favorite books whenever the episode aired back in 2016.

0:11.8

This is really the ultimate business book.

0:14.3

Tony Shea tells the story of how he sold his company, Sapos, to Amazon for $1.2 billion.

0:20.7

And you might be thinking, yeah, I read that book before, you know, this dude going from

0:25.8

X to riches, but I'm gonna tell you, you've never read a book like this.

0:30.4

Forget about the money here for a moment.

0:32.4

Read it for the business stories.

0:34.1

You'll hear the story of how Tony made a bet on whether his customer service for shoes

0:38.4

was so good that anyone could call in and ask them to order the customer a pizza.

0:43.5

And press I actually later tested the customer service.

0:46.4

And while we were, for some reason, I didn't move for pizza that day, it's absolutely

0:50.8

true.

0:51.8

The customer service is that good.

0:54.2

This book is just mind blowing, not just because of the pizza story, but because it's

0:57.4

story of how to put happiness in the driver's seat for yourself and the customer and how

1:02.8

money is simply a derivative of that.

1:05.3

So without further ado, get ready for one of the most impactful business books out there.

1:35.3

Hey, how's everybody doing out there?

1:36.9

This is Preston Fishen.

1:37.9

I'm your host for the investors podcast and as usual, I'm a company by my co host, Stig

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