John Paczkowski

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Glory Days, They’ll Pass You By: Groupon’s Andrew Mason at D (Video)

Andrew MasonEarlier this afternoon, Groupon fired co-founder Andrew Mason as CEO, one day after the company reported yet another dismal quarter, following what has been a disastrous year for the daily deals company.

But things weren’t always this bad. Back in 2011, a jovial Mason appeared onstage at our D9 conference, and did his damnedest to avoid chatting about the IPO papers Groupon would file less than 24 hours later. Here’s video of the interview:


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Moore’s Law means that more and more things can be done practically for free, if only it weren’t for those people who want to be paid. People are the flies in Moore’s Law’s ointment. When machines get incredibly cheap to run, people seem correspondingly expensive.

— From Jaron Lanier’s new book, “Who Owns the Future?” excerpted on Wired.com