The Ledger
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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 …”
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…”