For the employees working at online shoe seller, Zappos, they were living the dream.

On top of great pay and benefits, working was fun.

They could be themselves. Work felt like a playground.

CEO Tony Shea, who had written a book on happiness at work, had implemented a holocracy, which meant there were no bosses.

And it was working. Zappos had the kind of elusive hockey stick growth that other companies only dreamed of.

And Tony was a shining example of a CEO who could make everybody happy, employees, customers,

and shareholders.

And now he was on a nationwide bus tour with a dozen friends and coworkers to spread

the Zappos gospel.

Underneath the surface, however, was a different reality altogether.

Though the bust was wrapped with the phrase delivering happiness, its passengers were cracking.

The truth was, Tony was psychologically and physically breaking down, exacerbated by heavy drinking and drug use.

He was maniacal, pressuring coworkers to drink excessively with him while he pontificated on nonsensical

ideas about life and business. Five years after his tragic death, we can pinpoint this moment

as the beginning of a decades-long

nosedive into the depths of addiction, eventually fueled by ketamine and nitrous oxide. But for

the people on that bus, though his behavior was certainly odd, it was just Tony being Tony?

He was the CEO of a successful company.

He was worth almost a billion dollars.

Who were they to tell him his behavior was wrong?

Plus, he was bankrolling their lives.

They had a vested interest in keeping him on their good side.

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