Groupon founder Andrew Mason on "Today Show" NBC
Andrew Mason, Groupon CEO and founder on "Today Show," NBC
Matt Lauer with Andrew Mason, founder of "Groupon" on, "Today Show," NBC
Andrew Mason, the founder of, "Groupon" was on the, "Today Show" with Matt Lauer doing the interview. If a major network takes the time and money to do an interview with someone, they should be able to educated, inspire, or entertain the viewer. This interview did none of the above. It was not Mr Lauer's fault, but rather the attitude of Andrew Mason. The guy is on a roll now since it was announced worldwide that his company, "Groupon" was offered a fat 6 billion dollar deal by Google.
Lauer reported that the company started 24 months ago, but when you go to Network Solutions and look under, Whois, the company name was registered on May 29, 2002. Not sure what this may mean, perhaps the company was bought by Mr Mason just 2 years ago and the domain name existed long before. Not really sure, but what was bad was the interview. Mr Mason did not answer any questions other than to explain the demographics on his site and how it is so successful. When he was asked if he met Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, Mr Mason could not answer the question. Then why was he on TV? Unlike Mr Zuckerberg, the founder of "Facebook" was on "60 Minutes" and opened up about a lot of questions and appeared to be just like the other 26 year olds out there.
Andrew Mason is 30 years old and said that he was excited to be with a cool company.
Mark Mason was born in Pittsburgh in 1981. He studied music at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He just happened to fall into the software business after graduation (Please note, this info. was found by doing research, rather than the interview). As for "Groupon," only time will tell if he sells the company.
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