Andrew Mason
7 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Andrew Mason · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019
Mason: Wealth concentration for philanthropy can beat employee redistribution
“Arguably it's better for one benevolent person to end up with all this money instead of just distributing it evenly among all the employees. Right. So that they can all buy, you know, slightly nicer cars and other, you know, materialistic things.”
Jan 2, 2019
Mason tried giving away his Groupon equity to compensate employees
“And this happened to us at Groupon, and it was kind of frustrating because I felt like there were all these other people there. I felt like I was, frankly, ending up with more money than I needed. Wanted or knew what to do with. And there were all these other …”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Horowitz calls Mason's progressive equity concept ingenious
“This is one of these things where I get, ah, kind of emails all the time about new kinds of employee incentive plans and so forth, and like how the old ways of incenting people will never work, and there's a great better way, and usually they're just chock ful…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Mason: Candidates objecting to progressive equity caps are bad fits
“In terms of the downside of executive recruiting, I mean, I just think anybody that feels like, ah, you know, you're capping me out or you're taxing me. I don't know. Like that person's an asshole. I don't really want to work with them.”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Horowitz: Andrew Mason capped founder and executive equity gains at $50 million
“In Andrew's model, he basically puts a kind of cap on what the CEO, the founders and executives can make, you know, and it's a dollar cap. And once they hit their dollar cap, which is whatever their kind of financial independence threshold is, and I think it w…”