Question: What online shoe and clothing shop based in Las Vegas, Nevada, had its founder leave  before it reached $1 billion sales in 2008 and was sold to Amazon in 2009?
Context: Alexander "Alex" Lloyd is a venture capitalist, and the founder and managing partner of Accelerator Ventures, an investment and venture fund.  Lloyd was an early investor in many companies that have gone public or merged, including online shoe company Zappos which was acquired by Amazon.com in 2009 in an all-stock deal worth about $1.2 billion and semantic job search engine Trovix which was acquired by Monster.com in 2008 for $72.5 million. Tony Hsieh ( ; born December 12, 1973) is an American internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist.  He is the CEO of the online shoe and clothing shop Zappos.  Prior to joining Zappos, Hsieh co-founded the internet advertising network LinkExchange, which he sold to Microsoft in 1999 for $265 million. The Longaberger Company is an American manufacturer and distributor of handcrafted maple wood baskets and other home and lifestyle products.  It was one of the primary employers in the area near Dresden, Ohio with more than 8,200 employees and 1 billion dollars in sales.  Started in Dresden, the company is now headquartered in Newark, Ohio.  A family-owned and operated business, the Longaberger Company was started by Dave Longaberger in 1973, and was taken over in 2013 by CVSL, Inc.  It is currently led by John Rochon Jr, the son of the John P. Rochon, founder and chairman of JRJR Networks and Richmont Holdings.  There are currently fewer than 75 full-time and part-time employees.  Approximately 30 of those still make baskets.  A combination of a recession and changing tastes in home decor combined to send sales, which peaked in 2000 at $1 billion, to about $100 million in 2012. Midwest Federal Savings and Loan was an American bank headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Starting in the mid-1960s, its headquarters were located at 801 Nicollet Mall in what is now called McGladrey Plaza.  Midwest Federal was in business for ninety-nine years until its failure in 1989.  Its collapse was due mostly to bad real estate loans.  On April 22, 1991 the "St. Paul Pioneer Press" called the bank's failure the "largest financial disaster in Minnesota history" and was part of the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s.  Midwest Federal had assets of $3.5 billion, was liquidated by the Government at a cost of $1 billion to taxpayers.  Midwest was $1 billion in debt when it was seized by regulators in February 1989. The Vineyard Beverly Hills is a 157 acre undeveloped property in Beverly Hills, California reportedly worth $1 billion.  One of the owners is Victorino Noval.  The property was offered via a website for not under $1 billion and taken off the market in 2015.  In 1997, Mark R. Hughes, the founder of Herbalife, bought the property for $8.5 million from a member of the Shah of Iran's family; since then it has gone through a number of owners, following a complex lawsuit after Hughes' death. Marvin Girouard was the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Pier 1 Imports.  He was elected CEO in 1998, elected Chairman of the Board in 1999 and left the company in February 2007.  Girouard is credited with saving Pier 1 Imports from its sales slump in the 1990s.  Under Girouard's stewardship Pier 1 Imports sales reached $1 billion in fiscal year 1999. The Las Vegas–Paradise, NV MSA, also known as the Las Vegas–Henderson–Paradise, NV Metropolitan Statistical Area (2013), is in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, coextensive since 2003 with Clark County, Nevada.  A central part of the metropolitan area is the Las Vegas Valley, a 600 sqmi basin that includes the metropolitan area's largest city, Las Vegas as well as the other primary city, Paradise, Nevada.  The area contains the largest concentration of people in the state.  Cities in the metropolitan area include Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas, and Boulder City.  The metropolitan area is one of the top tourist destinations in the world, drawing over 40 million international and domestic visitors in 2013 with a GMP of US$103.3 billion. Zappos.com is an online shoe and clothing shop based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nick Swinmurn founded Zappos.com in 1999.  He left Zappos in 2006 before it reached $1 billion sales in 2008 and was sold to Amazon in 2009. Arthur James Edward Child, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (May 19, 1910 – July 30, 1996) was a Canadian businessman and former chairman and chief executive officer of Burns Foods Limited of Calgary.  Arthur James Edward Child and his business partner Ron Jackson acquired the food processing and distribution company in a leveraged management buyout in 1986.  With sales in excess of $1 billion, Burns Foods was involved in meat processing, dairy, food warehousing and distribution, and vegetable processing businesses.  Over a 12-year period, Arthur James Edward Child and his management team built Burns Foods into a leading Canadian food company with over $1 billion in annual sales.  Beginning in 1995, a majority of the Burns Foods’ subsidiaries were sold generating an exceptional return to the shareholders.
Answer: Zappos.com