Tony Hsieh died from complications of smoke inhalation nine days after he was pulled from the shed Published January 26, 2021 • Updated on January 27, 2021 at 12:00 am Getty Images Former Zappos chief executive Tony Hsieh locked himself inside a backyard shed – surrounded by bottles of liquor, a marijuana pipe, nitrous oxide cartridges and a whipped cream dispenser – in the minutes before he was found unconscious from smoke inhalation, according to a fire department report released Tuesday. The report by the New London Fire Department in Connecticut offers the most extensive account to date of the circumstances of Hsieh’s death last November, NBC News reports.