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
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.
years phones use
Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.
listening woe sainthood
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.
business entrepreneurship
We can't be afraid to be weird.
people raises
A lot of people can raise money.
jobs fire guy
If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself.
people secret crafts
If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret.
talking strange used
I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.
I just like to build things and do things.
mom cutting thinking
When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.
cutting hair mba
Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.
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.
moments enough ifs
If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.
thinking people bigs
I think the big thing about Groupon is just people had never seen anything grow quite so fast.