Andrew Mason
Andrew Mason
Andrew D. Masonis an American businessman and entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO of Groupon, a Chicago-based website offering users discounts on local businesses...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
life-is-too-short life-is-short life-being-short
Life is too short to be a boring company.
term stills
In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.
serious-person serious persons
I'm weird. But I'm a pretty serious person.
wrinkles laughing ifs
If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.
being-yourself inspiration giving
I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.
one-thing keep-going
One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.
would-be culture difficult
Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.
flower would-be world
Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
religious attachment challenges
One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.
very-happy commerce ifs
Globally local commerce is a $12 to $14 trillion market. If we get 10 percent of that, we'll be very happy.
selfish world sides
Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.
capitalist riding stop
I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall over. Or it's kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I'll just die.
deal everybody
Everybody loves a deal on a restaurant or skydiving or laser-hair removal.
businesses exist few primarily products stories success
One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.