Words matter. These are the best Andrew Mason Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
If you look at Myspace, Facebook was a better product. It’s as simple as that.
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.
The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.
Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.
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.
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.
Everybody loves a deal on a restaurant or skydiving or laser-hair removal.
If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?
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.
I’m just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.
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.
Local businesses have never had a great way to get customers in the door.
I find myself using the word ‘executives’ now.
If you don’t have those moments where you go too far, then you’re probably not going far enough.
A lot of people can raise money.
I can’t predict the future.
Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.
I just like to build things and do things.
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.
Life is too short to be a boring company.
I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.
You’ve got to go out there and kill what you’re going to eat.
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.
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.
