Competition and Humor Drive Groupon CEO Andrew Mason
(Reuters) - Groupon CEO Andrew Mason once thought of the hundreds of companies copying his business plan as plagiarists. Now, he joked to a crowd of investors and analysts this week, he just thinks of them as the competition. The 30-year-old executive's light touch belies the serious threat that Google, LivingSocial and any other company with a daily deals website poses to Groupon, which on Thursday filed to go public. But it is also the sort of quip that helped Mason win
4 June 2011•4 mins read
