Andrew Masonis out as CEO of Groupon.
With the company's stock price in long decline, it's hardly a surprise.
But we'd like to take a look at Mason's weirder, more lighthearted side.
Groupon established itself early on as a quirky, humorous company, and it seems to stem from Mason's own personality.
In this Wall Street Journal interview, he was asked if he's mature enough to run the company. We loved his response:
"I was weird before we were a public company and managed to get it worth whatever it's worth. I'm going to continue doing my thing and work my butt off to add value for shareholders and as long as they and the board see fit to keep me in this role, I feel enormously privileged to serve."
Doing yoga in his underwear.
With no explanation, this 9-minute YouTube video of Mason doing yoga in his underwear in front of a Christmas tree surfaced online.
He planned to present Mayor Bloomberg with a pony.
Vanity Fair reported on Mason's plans to give Mayor Bloomberg a pony as a gift when the mayor was visiting. Mason quickly changed plans when he learned that Bloomberg's daughter had been injured in a horse riding accident.
He wrote a poem on his blog.
You can read his blog here. But here's a little poem about supply and demand:
What does it mean
To a vending machine vendor
If you introduce a new product in a machine
And it is sold out the next day?
It should mean
that the product is very popular
and you should get more.
Not
never get that product again for over 3 weeks.
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