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October 22, 1980, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. (age 43)
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Andrew Mason (born October 22, 1980, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.) cofounder of Groupon, a Chicago-based e-commerce company that specializes in providing customers with coupons for discounted products and services from local businesses. Mason grew up in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mount Lebanon. His parents were entrepreneurs: his father was a diamond salesman, and his mother owned a photography business. Mason developed his own entrepreneurial spirit in high school. At age 15 he started a weekend bagel-delivery service called Bagel Express. In 2003 Mason graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor’s degree in music. Finding no work in that field, he took ...(100 of 559 words)

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