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Jason made it pretty clear that he was joining the Groupon board:

  * as a personal favor to Andrew Mason
  * to get some board experience
He emphasized:

  * he had not changed his stance on bootstrapping companies
  * his board involvement was not an endorsement of groupon
  * he sold his shares when given the chance
So I guess I'm missing the hilarity, other than seeing you try to pick another fight with Jason Fried.


Thanks for bullet pointing, was going to do the same thing.

I wish people would at least read the link they paste, if they intend to use it for their arguments. The link answered/refuted his own 'claims'.


I sort of agree with this...

However, the saying "If you lay down with dogs, then you get up with fleas" still applies. Even if you publicly disavow the fleas.


Andrew Mason is generally not considered a very upstanding CEO. Why is Fried giving Mason personal favors? Are they cousins?


I did some consulting for Andrew and can say that he's actually a REALLY decent guy who cares about his team and customers. Certainly there were times where Groupon was downright sloppy. And perhaps they were reckless. But can you point out where Andrew wasn't upstanding?


Just a year and a half ago Andrew Mason was actually considered one of the most charismatic CEOs in the business. GroupOn had MASSIVE momentum, and was actually known as the fastest growing company in history.

Fried was on GroupOn's board way before any of the investment scandals came up.


Maybe Mason did Fried a favor. That's usually how it works.




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