While running 'The Point', we launched Groupon as a side project, which allowed me to shift my focus without admitting that 'The Point' was failing.

We launched 'The Point' in September 2006, but after floundering for about a year, we pivoted to create Groupon.

I received a million dollars to drop out of grad school and work on 'The Point', despite having no prior experience in starting a tech company.

When I returned to San Francisco, I was inspired by the explosion of technology connecting people in unprecedented ways, leading me to believe we could leverage these connections for meaningful purposes.

In college, I wanted to create products that connected me with the community around me, which led to the realization that I needed to build software that others would use too.

My frustration with the lack of access to capital led me to business school, where I aimed to democratize funding and eventually co-founded Indiegogo.

I found Y Combinator because I was on Reddit during graduate school, where I discovered Paul Graham's essays that inspired me to pursue starting a company, despite the prevailing belief that the web was over after the dot-com crash.

I initially built Facebook for myself as a college student, but I quickly realized its potential to serve a broader audience beyond just my university.

The idea for Groupon emerged from recognizing that group buying was a viable business model, especially since people were already attempting group purchasing campaigns through 'The Point'.