Tony Hsieh

As the story goes, Las Vegas was built by Mormons and mobsters. This unlikely team worked together to bring gambling to a place almost exclusively populated by men constructing the Hoover Dam. Their work turned a tiny sun-baked town into a global phenomenon.

On the way in from the airport, my driver didn’t want to drop me at the downtown Las Vegas address that I had provided him. “Oh man, I dunno,” he said. “It might not be very… nice.” When I explained I was there to cover the revitalisation of Las Vegas’s…