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Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci
The Cost of Happiness
Tony Hsieh
Billionaire Zappos founder and tech CEO Tony Hsieh was obsessed with happiness and helping people achieve it. After running “the world’s happiest company” for two decades, Hsieh created his experimental community — The Downtown Project — dedicated to pursuing happiness. But what do Tony's life and death reveal about Silicon Valley’s obsession with re-imagining how society functions?
"A gripping tale" - The Guardian
The Cost Of Happiness is reported and hosted by Nastaran Tavakoli-Far. It is produced by Charlie Towler. Cover art and design by Jeana Sullivan. The story editor is Meara...
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4.0 stars from 131 ratings
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“You’d think someone with such a posh accent wouldn’t continually mispronounce so many workaday words. Yeesh It became quite distracting and annoying, had to quit”
oldjohnhall via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/24/24
Needlessly over-produced
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“I am fascinated by Tony Hsieh and this story, but the music put under so much of the narration and interviews was so distracting, it made for an unnecessarily difficult listening experience. NATs, transitional elements I can get behind but the elements used did not make sense with what else we...”Read full review »
A_rob via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
04/12/24
US weekly of “documentaries”
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“So shallow. Very interesting story, but there is literally no investigation. Feels like an English person who has no idea of general pronunciations etc is reading a Wikipedia page. With she would have studied up a bit more.”
LuciaJames via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
04/01/24
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