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Comment by akronim | Hacker News Reader

    with 3000+ employees (which is, frankly insane)

Keep in mind that's not 3000 developers, I believe it's mostly people calling out to set up deals, so basically a massive call centre.

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Actually, they have 7,107 employees.

From the SEC S-1 filing[1]:

We grew from 37 employees as of June 30, 2009 to 7,107 employees as of March 31, 2011.

[1] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1490281/0001047469110...

This is correct. Though it's well over 3000+ employees. Nearly 7000 and most of them are sales people. I've been inside and interviewed at Groupon and it's rows and rows of people on the phone for as far as the eye can see.

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