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“Life is too short to be a boring company.”
“I'm going to continue doing my thing and work my butt off to add value for shareholders and as long as they and the board see fit to keep me in this role, I feel enormously privileged to serve.”
“Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.”
“I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.”
“I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.”
“If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?”
“In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.”
“I own over four ties.”
“The list of companies that have added their own financial metrics is not a savory group.”
“One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.”
“I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.”
“I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.”
“When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.”
“If you look at Myspace, Facebook was a better product. It's as simple as that.”
“A lot of people can raise money.”
“Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.”
“There are over 2,000 direct clones of the Groupon business model. However, there's an equal amount of proof that the barriers to success are enormous. In spite of all those competitors, only a handful are remotely relevant.”
“The popularity of Groupon has almost rendered the group-buying element of it obsolete, because we're able to deliver so many customers that the merchants are very happy with even the smallest number that we can provide.”
“Generally, what people tend to underestimate is the cyborg nature of Groupon. We are a company that has the DNA of being both a technology company and a heavily operational company.”
“You've got to go out there and kill what you're going to eat.”