Chinese American founder of online shoe business Zappos Xie Jiahua died in a fire late last year, and there is a lot of talk about his secret Life. U.S. media reported that Xie Jiahua spent money to feed his drinking friends to live in seclusion together, and his best friend, singer Zhu Er, was worried that he was being used.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on the 26th that Tony Hsieh spent most of his last year of life sponsoring a group of longtime friends, former Zappos employees and aspiring musicians who moved with him to Park City, Utah.
This group of followers lives in and around Tse’s nearly 488 square foot mansion, and about a dozen men and women receive salaries and commissions from his $840 million estate. Tse offered double the salary to those who moved to Park City with him to work for him.
While ostensibly working for Tse, the men in fact fostered his drug and alcohol habits and used them to fight for control of a number of schemes that paid financial incentives.
Believing that the use of laughing gas (nitrous oxide), which is legal for medical and industrial use, will help people achieve spiritual awakening, Tse hopes to attract like-minded people to live with him in Park City.
In order to get closer to nature, Tse’s gang once gave up indoor and outdoor cleaning, allowing dogs to defecate all over the house and water to pour out of the faucet like a waterfall.
Friends and Family who were concerned about Xie’s health pointed out that the group had isolated him from the world and refused outside help. Xie considers the intervention an act of disloyalty, a label no one in the group around him wants to be affixed to.
One of Tse’s longtime friends, American singer-songwriter Jewel Kilcher, wrote a two-page letter to him. The letter mentioned that she was concerned about Xie’s drug use and did not believe that the group surrounding him was for his own good.
She wrote in the letter, “You must ask yourself one question: Do you want to die this year or next? Are you done helping the world? I say this with love, and I am probably the only person in your circle who says this among those who are not on your payroll.”
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