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Drilling into his specifics, one issue is that they didn't actually keep the team together (and may well not have wanted to, given the comp package the new COO at least got), the COO and CTO both left in March. http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/03/technology/groupon_ipo_quirk...

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Groupon raised the 1 billion in January which means that both the COO and CTO stayed long enough to cash in on the Series G round and then left.

Does that indicate that they thought the company's value was peaking?

More importantly, are we actually at the point where blogs in which a guy is admittedly just making things up about Groupon makes it to the front page?

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