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Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business. Jul 20, 2026 · 1 mention

Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018) Jan 5, 2026 · 1 mention

Madison Reed: Amy Errett Aug 18, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 31:02 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, Amy launches Madison Reed with a Groupon deal, which does not go according to plan.
  • ▶ 42:59 Guy Raz And you do, I think, early, a deal early with Groupon.

Snap: Evan Spiegel Apr 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 45:03 Guy Raz He famously founded Groupon, and famously, they were offered up to like six billion dollars for an acquisition from bidders like Google and Yahoo, which of course they turned down, which proved to be a mistake, right? 2 times in the scene

BARK: Matt Meeker Nov 4, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 32:35 Guy Raz And, but, um, you launch at a fortuitous time because of Groupon. 4 times in the scene

Groupon and Descript: Andrew Mason Sep 9, 2024 · 54 mentions

  • ▶ 0:54 Andrew Mason We all got drunk together, but it was such a release, like, knowing that this thing that I'd been fighting against for so long, doing whatever I could to keep this company going, that that chapter of my life was over, and really, like,…
  • ▶ 1:34 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Andrew Mason took the idea of collective action and turned it into Groupon, the fastest growing company of its time, and what happened after he was forced to leave it. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:59 Andrew Mason And it was getyourgroupon.com. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:52 Andrew Mason You wake up and you have your coffee and you read your daily Groupon. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:26 Guy Raz So it's 2009 and Groupon has been so successful in Chicago that it's expanded to Boston. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:26 Guy Raz These groupons. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:36 Guy Raz They reportedly offered about five billion dollars to acquire Groupon, but the decision was, hey, um, we can, we can be bigger. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:53 Guy Raz So you had to announce this to the staff at, at Groupon that you were not, um, going to be acquired. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 43:20 Andrew Mason We wanted to evolve Groupon to be something that wasn't just this dying daily deals model. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 46:46 Andrew Mason Um, and, uh, and I just had to get out of the way, and that hopefully a new face would, um, give Groupon a chance for, for a new start. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 52:30 Guy Raz So just five years after launching Groupon, Andrew is out of a job, fired as CEO. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 57:26 Andrew Mason Um, I had basically a backlog of ideas for a next company, like things that had come up over the course of Groupon that was like, ooh, this would be cool. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:03:17 Guy Raz It's, it's starting to remind me of going from the point to Groupon, right?
  • ▶ 1:05:47 Guy Raz Like, when do you, you know, with Groupon, there was an IPO, and there were different milestones. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:09:39 Guy Raz That's Andrew Mason, co-founder of Groupon and founder of Descript. 2 times in the scene

Thrive Market: Nick Green Aug 12, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:46 Nick Green The idea was basically to do Groupon for healthy food. 2 times in the scene

Etsy: Rob Kalin Oct 30, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:58 Rob Kalin And you see the inverse of this with companies like Groupon, which I think was, you know, fastest ever to go from zero to a billion dollars in revenue.

HIBT Lab! Boom Supersonic: Blake Scholl Feb 23, 2023 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 5:36 Guy Raz It was acquired by Groupon, uh, you know, obviously a famous sort of 11 times in the scene

Serial Entrepreneur: Gary Vaynerchuk Aug 2, 2021 · 1 mention

Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam Jan 11, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:29 Sam Yam Uh, it was a company called Chompon, but we effectively allowed people to create their own Groupon. 2 times in the scene

Framebridge: Susan Tynan (2017) May 6, 2019 · 2 mentions

Live Episode! Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin Dec 17, 2018 · 1 mention

Framebridge: Susan Tynan Nov 27, 2017 · 2 mentions

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