Mason, who has professionally never worked for anyone else but himself in a fulltime capacity, attributes much of his entrepreneurial success to learning by trial and error at ThePoint.

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Mason was driving a startup called ThePoint that gathered people on the Web to unite behind particular causes.

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The idea soon morphed into ThePoint.com, an online platform for petitioners to muster support for all sorts of causes.

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