Mason Har­ris, a speak­er, writer, and entre­pre­neur, is the mid­dle child of East­ern Euro­pean immi­grants. He learned ear­ly on that Amer­i­ca is the land of oppor­tu­ni­ty, and suc­cess has two crit­i­cal com­po­nents: edu­ca­tion (for­mal and street), and chutz­pah. As an entre­pre­neur, he has learned from both his ​“suc­cess­es” and ​“less­er suc­cess­es,” also known as ​“fail­ures.”