I love talking entrepreneurship with people from all ages, and in many conversations at meetings or conferences I notice the older generation tends to think the younger is a bit arrogant. If they or “we” come off that way, then so be it, but all they want to do is help make companies grow and become better at what they do. Young leaders are simply willing to take the risk, strategize and take action in a “ALL IN” type of way. These same young leaders are not interested in selling anything to make money, they are interested in making something good, great. And when I say great, I mean talked about on TechCrunch and asked to be bought out by Google or Microsoft, and then say “NO”. One very recent example of this is from the company Groupon. Andrew Mason, CEO of Groupon, is now one person that I look up to immediately after watching the video posted below.  Andrew posted this after one of the coupon’s that they sold on their site in Japan went terribly wrong. It’s moments like these where leadership from growing companies shows that they are here to make their company a success, not to simply sit behind a desk and ask people what to do.

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