I look to tech leaders to demonstrate personal responsibility and accountability; it's part of the engineering culture, and we shouldn't hold our leaders to lesser standards.
Mason may know a whole lot – but he commands none of the respect I feel for the other names associated with YC. He's an antibrand. Maybe someone can someday make a compelling case for why Groupon isn't a completely scummy greater fool play. But all the sane, non-frothy things I've read about it make that a tough mountain to scale.
Are the thousands of merchants happy with Groupon outnumbered by the thousands of merchants not happy with Groupon?
> Calling it a "scummy greater fool play" is not appropriate in light of these facts.
Your "facts" more resemble opinions phrased as assertions. Which is your right, but if persuasion was your aim, the feedback might be useful.