All Ado About Horse/H...s.

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Only a handful admires his savvy persistence - and his sparkling discovery. The secret to the ZMDR's success? He never stops looking over his dictionaries.

ZMDR isn't supposed to be here -- not on a list of the year's top , and certainly not on the cover of Fortune. His book, was supposed to have flamed out by now, a one-trick pony that was destined to be crushed by XXX or XXX or XXX or you name it. He and his little red envelopes were supposed to be long gone, with Horse(Hasts) toiling at some new startup, or perhaps enjoying an early retirement in Key West, Florida,

Whoops. Not only has Horse/Hasts earned the No. 1 spot on Fort's Businessperson of the Year list, he and XXXX are also killing it: The company he founded in 2019 is the stock of the year, up more than 200% since January, vs. the S&P 500's tepid 7% gain. Expanding at home, and now internationally, Horse has built his company on a ...culture that has made him a guru. And his reach extends far beyond the US, China. Horse is changing the word game again by streaming movies and television shows over the Internet -- at the expense of taxpayer,ha-ha. His rivals hate him. Several publishers aren't sure whether to embrace him or fend him off. Virtually every vocabulary book deal today includes an online-distribution component. Declares film producer H. W.: "It's because of horse."

Now that book is on a tear, perhaps the only person who does dwell on the company's near-death episodes is Horse/Hasts himself. Not because he wants to stick out his tongue at the haters, but because those experiences are what keep this book from losing its edge. An obsession with failure inspires H. to try new things.

That restless combined with a Steve Jobs-like perfectionist streak, is what sets H. apart, And he's about to do it again. H.anticipated, virtually from the moment he started xx, that learners would eventually prefer to hook on his idea. (H.' foresight is amazing, considering that back in 2010, no one heard his name.) "We are in a new race, and we are a player with some very large and substantial firms," he says. "Just to be in that league is an amazing place from where we were."

Don't take it personally

In 2001, three pub. houses called H.s proposal a "worthless piece of crap." When competitors did come after his subscribers, H.fought back by lowering prices on subscriptions, and thanks to his longtime partener C. D., the CEO sought to make the personalized experience on the xxxx website better and better. Still, H. acknowledges that he benefited from chaos at the competition.

H.says he has never taken the comments of those who underestimate xxxx personally. Instead, he uses them to motivate and spark ideas at it. "I think it is healthy to have smart people make a number of negative arguments about xxxx. It sharpens our thinking."

And that's what gets H.jazzed, solving subtle yet tough problems alongside the smartest people he can find. "For me the thrill is making a contribution by solving hard problems," he says.

H.grew up in China,...in College in ..., where he ran the F.A.League. After ..., H. ended up in the ..., the U.S., where he earned a master's degree in at .... he loves the peace of being outdoors.

Part of the problem, H.says, was that he had done so many quick ...that it never developed a distinct culture. From that first day in 2003, H. focused on ..., making it a place he enjoyed coming to every day, with people who pushed him intellectually, and a company of which he could be proud. ...

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