Groupon's Founder Gets Inspired By Failure

Season 1, Episode 80,   Feb 04, 2019, 08:00 AM

After Groupon, founder Andrew Mason launched a quirky audio-guide company. That new startup didn’t thrive--but in the process of developing it, his team discovered a brand-new idea that was way bigger and more exciting. Now it exists: It's called Descript (and fun fact: Problem Solvers is produced using this software!). This is the story of how one failed startup can actually lead to the successful next one.