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Itâs called Zappos. A couple of months later, the uber smart 27-year old Hsieh joined the company as its CEO and, well, the rest is history. Today, Zappos is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon (having been acquired for $1.2 billion in 2009) and its roughly 1,500 employees, headquartered in Las Vegas, produce in excess of $2 billion in revenues annually.
About one week into the job itself, the company gives employees what it calls The Offer, offering to pay for the amount of time worked plus a $2,000 bonus if the new hires leave. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh told Businessweek that 97 percent of employees decline The Offer.mazon makes the offer once a year, but only to workers in the fulfillment centers where orders are boxed and shipped. In the first year of work, the offer is $2,000. It goes up by $1,000 every year after that until it hits $5,000. The deal even has a special headline: Please don't take this offer..