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
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It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like.
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If I could get a deal on whatever my impulse was, whenever my impulse struck, and it was nearby, I would use that all the time. It would reshape the way that I shop.
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I'm appalled that an industry has grown around teaching a practice as wholesome and spiritual as yoga, so I decided to create my own free video to help people get started.
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I think I was probably that kid in the neighborhood who you could expect once or twice a year to be knocking on your door trying to sell you something stupid.
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In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas.
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Generally, what people tend to underestimate is the cyborg nature of Groupon. We are a company that has the DNA of being both a technology company and a heavily operational company.
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All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of Internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure.
You've got to go out there and kill what you're going to eat.
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Yeah, it turns out that guys don't like deals on laser hair removal or pole dancing lessons.
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The list of companies that have added their own financial metrics is not a savory group.
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Local businesses have never had a great way to get customers in the door.
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If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you.
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I find myself using the word 'executives' now.
I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.