He received his undergraduate

degree in finance and

entrepreneurship from McGill in

Montreal. He found a job at Citigroup

where he worked as an Investment

Banking Associate. However, it was

not fun there and decided to pursue

his entrepreneurial spirit by founding

TeamBuy.

What many people do not know,

TeamBuy is not the first group buying.

In general, group buying has been

pretty popular in Asia for many years.

There are some services such as

Craiglist where people meet online

and the go physically to stores in order

to demand basically these discounts

based on volume.

When he was working at Citigroup, the

concept of team buying represented a

huge online market potential and excited

Ghasson as he decided to travel to

Toronto in order to meet two strangers

who shared his interest in social buying.

The three realized that their way of

looking at things were very similar.

Therefore, they decided to align their

visions.