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1. At age of 15, he started a Saturday morning delivery service called Bagel Express
2. He graduated from Northwestern University in 2003 with a degree in music
3. He got into software development by accident
4. In 2003 he worked as developer for Eric Lefkofsky and Inner Workings
5. After developing Policy Tree, a policy debate visualization tool, he won a scholarship to attend the University of Chicago's Harris School of public Policy, but stopped 3 months later and started The Point, a platform from which Groupon was born
6. He received in the same year one million dollars from Lefkofsky for The Point
7. In November 2008 he launched Groupon
8. Mason turned down a $6 billion offer by Google (Google's highest offer, almost double its highest acquisition ever) in December 2010
9. Andrew Mason is expected to be the next Mark Zuckerberg and Groupon, the next big thing
10. When he started The Point, Andrew was told: ‘There’s no revenue model in this thing. You’re going to fail.’ to which he replied: ‘Well, hang on a second. We have something up our sleeve. We’re not ready to talk about it. We’ll come out with it later.’

Some of his quotes:

“I think I’ve always just been motivated to be working on interesting things. It turns out running a company gives you an opportunity to do many interesting things. It’s a fulfilling outlet for that desire.”

“I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before this.”

“I never really planned my life more than one month in advance. I try to chase whatever I think is the most interesting thing to do at the moment, and if it becomes less interesting, I find something else to do.”