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Yes; I learned that from a friend who works at Groupon and is familiar with all their numbers.



You expect an honest accounting from an internal source?


I don't expect my friends to lie to me.


Even given the best intentions, why assume their information is accurate? Aren't public companies incentivized to bias evidence to their utmost favor?

90% seems so high it fails the sniff test but I could easily see how it's a figure passed around internally. I'm just surprised you accept (and now promote) that number as fact.


My friend is high enough at Groupon to know accurate numbers.

I'm not sure what more I can say that would satisfy you. Can we stop now?




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