The retailer's Zappos at Work B2B platform has over 50 corporate clients including Delta Airlines and Amazon. Zappos Is Changing the Way Workers from Delta, Amazon & Other Fortune 500 Companies ...

Fortune included Zappos.com in the 2009 edition of its 100 Best Companies to Work For, citing Zappos.com's free employee lunches, concierge services and 100 percent health-insurance coverage.

Then he sold Zappos to Amazon for $1.2 billion, while retaining operational independence. Now he's trying to make the desert bloom. And if he fails, we're probably all in big trouble.

Zappos, under Amazon, keeps its independent streak CEO Hsieh's brand plan could one day involve a Zappos airline or hotel Published: June 11, 2010 at 4:47 p.m. ET ...

Tony reported to Jeff Wilke, then the head of Amazon’s worldwide consumer business and one of Bezos’ top lieutenants at the time. Wilke, then 53, was widely seen as a successor to Bezos and ...

However, Zappos' program differs slightly in that it only offers the money to customer service employees, enticing them to quit with $3,000 after a four-week training program and one week of work.

Amazon said it will also pay $40 million in cash and stock to Zappos employees. The deal is expected to close this fall. Zappos, founded in 1999, relocated from San Francisco to Las Vegas in 2004.

Hsieh did a great job of growing Zappos to $1 billion before selling to Amazon(NASDAQ:AMZN) in 2009. But over the past few years, he appears fixated on reengineering everything from Zappos to ...