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SORINT.lab
SORINT.lab is a multinational, vendor-neutral 'Next Generation System Integrator' founded in Bergamo, Italy in 1985. With roughly 1,500 engineers across 17 offices in Europe, the USA and Africa, it helps over 100 large organizations run and modernize their IT through DevOps, CI/CD, cloud adoption, application modernization, next-generation IT operations and site reliability engineering. The company is a notable open-source contributor (Agola, Stolon, Ercole, Sircles) and runs on a flat, holacracy-style 'Sircles' organizational model.
Tony Hsieh
Tony Hsieh was the visionary CEO of Zappos who turned a struggling online shoe store into a $1.2 billion acquisition by Amazon, not by selling shoes but by relentlessly selling happiness - to customers, employees, and a disbelieving corporate world. A Harvard computer science grad who sold his first company (LinkExchange) to Microsoft for $265 million at 24, Hsieh spent two decades proving that culture isn't a perk but the entire product. He wrote the bestselling 'Delivering Happiness,' bet $350 million on reviving downtown Las Vegas, and died in November 2020 at age 46, leaving behind a philosophy that still shapes how companies think about their people.