How a Musician Became an Experiential Brand Marketer as Zappos' 'Fungineer'

Tyler Williams discovered the brand really does value creativity

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Musician Tyler Williams had nearly snared a plum job, especially for Las Vegas. In a city where the prevailing professions are housekeeper and casino cashier, Williams had made it to the final interview for a position as a drummer in the Blue Man Group. There was just one problem: He didn’t really want the gig.

Williams had been watching videos by Vegas-based business mystic and Zappos founder Tony Hsieh, whose convention-defying wisdom operates at the spiritual center of his etail footwear site, which Amazon snapped up in 2009 for a tidy $1.2

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