安德魯?梅森

? 目前頭銜：音樂家

? 上榜時間（排名）：2010年（第25位），2011年（第27位）

可以說，梅森創辦的團購網站Groupon改變了在線零售行業，然而由于強勢的個性和平庸的盈利記錄，他最終被驅逐出自己一手創辦的公司。這個團購公司每天售出超過1.5億張電子優惠券，可以為用戶提供相當大的折扣，涉及的商品更是琳瑯滿目，從激光矯視手術到Gap牛仔褲，甚至還有印度美食，幾乎無所不包。

Groupon在2011年進行了IPO，規模在互聯網公司歷史上排名第二，公司估值高達127億美元，而且催生了大量山寨網站。但自從上市之后，這家公司卻日漸沒落。今年2月份，梅森(他有各種怪癖，比如穿著三角褲練瑜伽等)遭到公司驅逐。六個月后，西北音樂學院畢業的梅森發行了一張“勵志商業音樂”專輯“Hardly Workin”。專輯的目的是向年輕一代傳播商業智慧，其中包括“My Door is Always Open”和“Risin' Above the Pack”等歌曲。

Andrew Mason

? Current title: Musician

? Year on list (rank): 2010 (No. 25), 2011 (No. 27)

Before being summarily booted from the company he founded for an overwhelming personality and an underwhelming earnings record, Mason changed the online retail landscape with his startup Groupon. The daily deals company sold more than 150 million digital coupons for steep discounts at business offering everything from Lasik eye surgery, to Gap jeans, to Indian food.

At its 2011 IPO, the second-largest in history for an internet company, Groupon had a $12.7 billion valuation and legions of imitators. But after going public the business foundered and Mason, known for stunts such as doing yoga in tighty-whities, was fired in February. Six months later, the Northwestern music school graduate released an album of "motivational business music," called "Hardly Workin'." Intended to spread business wisdom to a younger generation, it includes songs called "My Door is Always Open" and "Risin' Above the Pack."??