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If the owners didn't take ~700 million of the table from the last rounds of founding, groupon would be in a better financial situation than they are today.

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If they didn't, they may not have had a second chance.

Which underscores one of the main problems. If the founders didn't think they were going to have a second chance, why should anybody else?

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