Andrew Mason Quotes

• I don’t get stressed out.

  Andrew Mason

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stressed Out

• 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.

  Andrew Mason

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Whatever, Deal

• I’m just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.

  Andrew Mason

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Strange, Used

• I’m going to continue doing my thing and work my butt off to add value for shareholders and as long as they and the board see fit to keep me in this role, I feel enormously privileged to serve.

  Andrew Mason

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Long, Keep

• 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.

  Andrew Mason

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Spiritual, Help, Free

• I think the big thing about Groupon is just people had never seen anything grow quite so fast.

  Andrew Mason

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Anything, Big, Seen

• I think if there’s any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it’s that I’ve been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what’s expected.

  Andrew Mason

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Change, Around

• 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.

  Andrew Mason

  Topics in Stupid

  Tags in Trying, Once

• I own over four ties.

  Andrew Mason

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Over, Four, Ties

• 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.

  Andrew Mason

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kind, Over, Look

• I just like to build things and do things.

   

   

  Andrew Mason

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Build

• I find myself using the word ‘executives’ now.

  Andrew Mason

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Find, Word

• I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.

  Andrew Mason

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  Tags in Teeth, Clout

• I didn’t realize how hard it was to run a small business.

  Andrew Mason

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Hard, Small

• Groupon as a company – it’s built into the business model – is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We’ve carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture.

  Andrew Mason

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Day, Writing

• 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.

  Andrew Mason

  Topics in Nature, Technology

  Tags in Both

• Everybody loves a deal on a restaurant or skydiving or laser-hair removal.

  Andrew Mason

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Everybody, Deal

• Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there’s something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO.

  Andrew Mason

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Smart, Others, Useful

• 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.

  Andrew Mason

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Show, Sure, Whether

• A lot of people can raise money.

  Andrew Mason

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Raise

Andrew Mason (45)

Birth:	1980
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Chief Executive Officer, Entrepreneur

About

Andrew D. Mason is an American businessman and entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO of Groupon, a Chicago-based website offering users discounts on local businesses. After graduating from Northwestern University in 2003 with a degree in music, Mason worked in web design for Chicago entrepreneur Eric Lefkofsky. It was found that The Point – a social initiatives platform whose name was inspired by Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point – was too abstract to market, and it was stripped down to the Groupon concept. Groupon is a website that sells deals to local businesses. Groupon's website states that since its beginning in November 2008, Groupon has sold more than six million deals. With Groupon taking 50 percent of every deal, plus a small credit-card handling fee, in late 2010 it was reported by Mashable that Groupon's annual revenue was $800 million.

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