I remember, back during their heyday, listening to pundits discuss how Groupon was going to run Google out of business if Google couldn't find a better way to offer daily deals. I regularly saw people mentioning Groupon in the same breath as Amazon and Apple when speaking of tech giants.
All I remember what thinking that they were insane to not take the buyout. Seems I was right.
Couldn't agree more.
Creation of a Google-Groupon axis would've been powerful.