Andrew Mason
15 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 9, 2024 by Andrew Mason · said 5 times in 2 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
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Sep 9, 2024 positive
Sep 9, 2024 negative
Mason: The Point failed because collective action required too many participants
“This idea is indicative of what a terrible idea the point was. . It was like this academic theory. That sounded like a good idea, but then when we actually started doing it, all of the use cases required such, they were few and far between, or they required a …”
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Mason: Except for rare outliers like Bezos, founder success requires luck
“I think there's like, I don't know, maybe Jeff Bezos and a handful of people where it almost like doesn't matter what circumstance could have shown up in their life. Like they were going to end up being a super successful billionaire. For the rest of us, it's …”
Sep 9, 2024
Mason: Classmate's $400 website sale initially deterred him from computer science
“And just to show you how entrepreneurs sometimes have incredibly little vision I remember thinking, well, I guess he's cornered that market. You know, no more opportunity for people to build websites. And that was actually, like, weirdly, like, a deterrent for…”
Sep 9, 2024 negative
Mason: Quirky persona was tolerated while Groupon was private, weaponized post-IPO
“Anyway, it was all, like, good and fun when we were a private company, and then when we became a public company, it was kind of weaponized as a sign that I was, like, not suited for the job and immature. It didn't make sense to me, because it's like, I was thi…”
Sep 9, 2024 positive
Mason: Founders get slack on inexperience if they demonstrate rapid growth
“When you're a founder, you just have this, you just get a free pass on a lot of stuff. I guess you bring something to the table or people just like assume that you're stuck there or something like that, and they're willing to give you some slack and understand…”
Sep 9, 2024 negative
Sep 9, 2024
Mason: Lefkofsky offered $1M to drop out and build The Point
“So after I'd been in school for just under a quarter, he called me up one day, and he had heard about another idea for a website that I'd had that later became known as The Point. And I think his business instincts didn't know what to do with something like po…”
Sep 9, 2024 neutral
Sep 9, 2024
Mason: Hired actress to impersonate Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz to prank staff
“What happened was we had an all hands meeting at this church down the street from the office and, you know, they're the 500 or a thousand Groupon employees were in this church. And I came up to the stage. I said, hey, I have a special announcement... I said, h…”