40位40岁以下商界精英：往届人物今何在

安德鲁•梅森

• 目前头衔：音乐家

• 上榜时间（排名）：2010年（第25位），2011年（第27位）

可以说，梅森创办的团购网站Groupon改变了在线零售行业，然而由于强势的个性和平庸的盈利记录，他最终被驱逐出自己一手创办的公司。这个团购公司每天售出超过1.5亿张电子优惠券，可以为用户提供相当大的折扣，涉及的商品更是琳琅满目，从激光矫视手术到Gap牛仔裤，甚至还有印度美食，几乎无所不包。

Groupon在2011年进行了IPO，规模在互联网公司历史上排名第二，公司估值高达127亿美元，而且催生了大量山寨网站。但自从上市之后，这家公司却日渐没落。今年2月份，梅森(他有各种怪癖，比如穿着三角裤练瑜伽等)遭到公司驱逐。六个月后，西北音乐学院毕业的梅森发行了一张“励志商业音乐”专辑“Hardly Workin”。专辑的目的是向年轻一代传播商业智慧，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."