"Andrew Mason" Blogs & Blog Posts

Video editing is often a time-consuming process, but Descript is trying to take the sting out of it a bit with its latest suite of tools. Descript Video transcribes your footage and turns it into a text document. Changes that you make there are refle...

Descript, the latest startup from Groupon co-founder Andrew Mason, made a splash in the world of audio last year with a platform for easy audio editing based on how you edit written documents, adding features like an AI-based tool that uses a recordi...

 The founders of PayPal and its employees have produced many highly successful companies over the years. Often referred to as the “PayPal Mafia” because they’ve had such an impact on the startup ecosystem, this serial entrepren...

 The deal service Groupon on Tuesday announced CEO and co-founder Eric Lefkofsky would step down, and Rich Williams would take over the company immediately. The company said Lefkofsky would return to the role of chairman of the board. Williams t...

Groupon's board of directors has appointed Eric Lefkofsky as its permanent CEO, the company announced late Wednesday Lefkofsky, Groupon's co-founder and largest shareholder, had been serving as interim co-CEO with vice chairman Ted Leonsis after the...

Don't feel too bad for ousted Groupon CEO Andrew Mason: He's worth about $228 million, according to a report. The Wall Street Journal's Digits blog crunched the numbers and found that Mason's 7.1% stake in combined Class A and Class B shares left him...

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason fired, Google CEO Sergey Brin feels emasculated by phones but not by nerd glasses and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is putting an end to remote work. Plus Oscars & Fashion. Here is our take on the week that was!