Quotes By Andrew Mason
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.
Andrew Mason
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.
Andrew Mason
One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.
Andrew Mason
Yeah, it turns out that guys don't like deals on laser hair removal or pole dancing lessons.
Andrew Mason
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.
Andrew Mason
Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.
Andrew Mason
The list of companies that have added their own financial metrics is not a savory group.
Andrew Mason
I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.
Andrew Mason
If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?
Andrew Mason
Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there's something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO.
Andrew Mason
I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall over. Or it's kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I'll just die.
Andrew Mason
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.
Andrew Mason
I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.
Andrew Mason
I think the big thing about Groupon is just people had never seen anything grow quite so fast.
Andrew Mason
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.
Andrew Mason
The popularity of Groupon has almost rendered the group-buying element of it obsolete, because we're able to deliver so many customers that the merchants are very happy with even the smallest number that we can provide.
Andrew Mason
When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.
Andrew Mason
If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret.
Andrew Mason