Quotes from Andrew Mason


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Life is not about money.


The list of companies that have added their own financial metrics is not a savory group.


Yeah, it turns out that guys don't like deals on laser hair removal or pole dancing lessons.


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.


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.


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.


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.


In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas.


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.


Local businesses have never had a great way to get customers in the door.


The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.


In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.


If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you.


If you look at Myspace, Facebook was a better product. It's as simple as that.


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


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


I own over four ties.


I just like to build things and do things.


I find myself using the word 'executives' now.


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