The Internet has become a podium for rants, but Andrew Mason hopes his Web site will spur actions, not just more hot air.
ThePoint.com invites people to create or join a campaign on anything, from winterproofing Chicago with a dome to pressuring Pfizer to cut drug prices in developing countries.
Signing up is free, and site users are not required to follow through on promises to act or contribute money until the campaign has reached what its creator has deemed the “tipping point”—the minimum number of members or funds needed to make a change.
In the case of the Chicago Winter Dome, the tipping point is $10 billion. (So far, $233,085 has been pledged.) Mason, 27, dropped out of the master’s program in public policy at the University of Chicago to start the site last October. He raised $1 million from angel investors and $4.8 million from New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital firm in Chevy Chase, Md.
The site may soon reach a tipping point of its own: Mason plans to start posting ads.
Photo by omacaco.
Got A Pet Peeve?
April 4, 2008 by Rich | 1 Comment
In Internet, Networking, Stress
cohnsey on April 4th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Sounds like a cool idea. I think they need to make a campaign to remove the Philadelphia Phillies from the MLB.