Andrew Mason

“Everybody loves a deal on a restaurant or skydiving or laser-hair removal.”

“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.”

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

“If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.”

“One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.”

“I just like to build things and do things.”

“I don't get stressed out.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Life is not about money.”