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Noah Kagan Presents

The Founder of Groupon’s New Thing!

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Mason is the founder and former CEO of Groupon… who had a VERY public firing. Today, I’m talking to Andrew about what he learned getting fired from the company he helped create, how he dusted himself off to start a new business, and more.

Full show notes at https://okdork.com/podcast/116

Transcript

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0:00.0

one can simultaneously build a growing company and record a bootleg yoga video in their underwear.

0:07.6

But it turns out, those two things do not go together well. What is up you beautiful bastards?

0:16.0

It's your boy oatmeal, aka Rabbi Can't Lose,

0:19.0

aka Noah Kagan.

0:20.0

In today's episode I talked to Andrew Mason, the founder of Groupon.

0:24.0

I have wanted to talk to Andrew for years, especially since we run AppSuma.com, which has been called the Groupon of software.

0:31.0

We discussed so many things including his new company

0:33.2

Descript.com which is taking over the podcast world with really impressive

0:38.0

transcription and a new feature called Overdub. Wildly, Andrew actually emailed me right before Groupon took off asking for help.

0:46.4

I totally brushed it off and I forgot about it until this conversation.

0:50.2

It's a great example of how to be careful of how you treat people and something we'll talk about in this episode

0:55.4

There's that an insane amount of other ear nuggets you're going to enjoy here's three major ones

0:59.8

Number one Andrew's opinion on groupoing Public and keeping your company's core while you scale.

1:06.4

Number two, how and when to pivot, do you keep doing something that might be working or try to move into something brand new?

1:12.4

And number three, where to get your self-worth?

1:15.0

Andrew was kicked out of his own company after they went public

1:18.0

and this was major news.

1:20.0

How the heck did he deal with his self-worth after that?

1:22.0

You're going to enjoy those three things

1:23.1

plus a bunch more magic along the way. Before we jump into the conversation go check

1:27.7

out Descript.com for your transcription needs. It's Andrew's company. I use it. I like

1:32.3

it a lot and it's free.

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