![]() ![]() As the years wore on, this lifestyle overcame his role as a community leader and toward the end of 2019 he left Vegas for Park City, Utah, where he reportedly spent $70 million and bought more than half a dozen properties with the goal of building another startup community, such as the one he had built in Vegas.īut instead, the community turned into a hedonistic enclave, where people on Hsieh’s payroll indulged his every whim- such as conducting a research report on the laughing gas nitrous oxide, which he was consuming daily, to figuring out a way to stop time-and were less willing to curb his increasingly concerning behavior and excessive drug use, Forbes previously reported. ![]() Outside of building companies and communities, Hsieh also had a habit of hard partying, and he was a regular attendee of Burning Man and other music festivals. ![]() ![]() The result was a bustling nerve center of businesses and an Airstream trailer park, where Hsieh lived for a number of years before moving to Park City. He then pledged $350 million of his own money to rebuild Downtown Las Vegas-then a seedy, downtrodden neighborhood-into a vibrant city-as-a-startup. After moving the company from San Francisco to Las Vegas, he sold it to Amazon for $1.2 billion in 2009. ![]()
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