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That Guy That Stayed in 30 Vegas Hotels In 30 Days To Bring New Biz To Downtown

September 27, 2011 at 1:07 PM | by | Comments (2)

Apparently, there was a seismic shift in the geekdom last week that caused quite a bit of uproar, but one we wouldn't have really paid attention to if it didn't involve Paul Carr. Yes, that Paul Carr. The Brit who polarized Vegas a bit back when he decided to stay in a hotel a day for 30 days.

The latest drama centered around the travel-slash-tech writer's very public decision to leave TechCrunch with a flair not unlike that scene at the beginning of Jerry Maguire when Tom Cruise gets the boot and Rene Zellweger decides to go off with him. 'Cept you need to replace Tom with Mike Arrington and Rene with Paul. Sorry, Paul. And, there probably wasn't a mission statement involved. Or, maybe there was. Really, it's a bit of a tangled web so just read it all here, here and here.

Ok, so all caught up? 'Cause that's about where we were when we happened to look at our Facebook stream last night and saw that Mr. Carr is already onto the next big thing and it just so happens that his Cuba Gooding Jr. is none other than Vegas' Tony Hsieh of Zappos fame. (Ok, stretching the whole Jerry Maguire thing there. We'll stop. Eventually.) Anywho, turns out that Carr is now planning a mysterious Vegas startup that will be funded by Mr. Arrington and Mr. Hsieh:

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What It's Like On the Zappos Headquarters Tour

Where: 2280 Corporate Circle Suite, #100 [map], 89074
September 21, 2009 at 6:06 PM | by | Comments (0)

A friend of VegasChatter did something we've been dying to do for a while--he took the Zappos.com Tour, a free behind-the-scenes look at the culture and the business of the Zappos headquarters in Henderson. Here's all that he saw. Enjoy!

The Zappos Royalty Tour
Ok, that’s not really what they call it. They actually refer to it as "an experience of the Zappos environment." I thought my name was more fitting. Where else but Zappos would you get to meet a cagillionaire, a life coach, have your photo taken wearing a crown as you sit on a royal throne, and learn how to take a company from zero to 1 billion dollars in sales in 10 years … all in 90 minutes? Needless to say, this is not your typical stodgy corporate tour.

It was actually a lot of fun, kind of like a pub crawl without the alcohol.

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