Zitat des Tages von Andrew Mason:
I think the big thing about Groupon is just people had never seen anything grow quite so fast.
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.
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'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.
If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.
I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.
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.
If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you.
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.
One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.
Life is too short to be a boring company.
Life is not about money.
If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?
Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture.
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.
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.
There are over 2,000 direct clones of the Groupon business model. However, there's an equal amount of proof that the barriers to success are enormous. In spite of all those competitors, only a handful are remotely relevant.
I don't get stressed out.
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.
If you look at Myspace, Facebook was a better product. It's as simple as that.