On Thursday morning, as I was on my way to Florida to visit my parents, I got a call from my partner Brad telling me that Adam London had suddenly and unexpectedly passed away. Adam was Brad’s [...]
Many venture capitalists tout themselves as being “founder friendly.” You’ll hear things like, “we stand behind our founders” or “we’re only here to support our founders.” If you’re young and [...]
The other day I went to see the play Hamilton and, besides it being absurdly awesome, I was blown away by the historical significance of being in New York just before the Revolutionary War. A [...]
Over the past several years, my wife and I have committed a ton of time and money to fund cancer research. Increasingly these days, I get asked why. Let’s start with the obvious – cancer is [...]
These days, it’s almost impossible to read an article about tech companies without hearing the word Unicorn. The term has come to define a moment in time, when nearly 150 private tech companies, [...]
It’s been about a week since I changed jobs at Groupon, and I realized that my posts and blogs over the past few years have been so “pre-manufactured” to fit within the [...]
As you may have seen in our earlier release, this is my final call as CEO, as I hand the reins over to Rich Williams. When I became CEO two and a half years ago, I hoped a day would come when the [...]
Our mission is to connect local commerce by providing better yield management tools to merchants looking to fill their open capacity, while offering consumers a seamless experience, through which [...]
Our mission is to connect local commerce, in part by establishing Groupon as a daily habit. To do this, we’re focused on two areas: The first is to create a marketplace filled with enough [...]
We also made progress in the quarter across our 2014 strategic initiatives, in which we focused on building a local and mobile marketplace that we could eventually export to every country in [...]