BusinessInsider<\/a>}<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIf you’re feeling a bit bad for Andrew Mason: don’t. In addition to the fact that he’ll still end up worth more than $2 billion, he and Lefkosky both own 41.7% of the voting shares in the company, meaning he still has a big say in the direction of the company.<\/p>\n
Still we have to say that Rob Solomon, who didn’t even stay on as President for a full year, made one of the better deals. The Samwers are a very close second. Cumulatively, they came out with more, but individually (there are 3 brothers) their stakes are worth a little less than a billion each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We won’t hold our breath for a 50% off deal, but if you haven’t burned all of your investment dollars in RenRen or the (in our opinion) better positioned LinkedIn or Yandex you’ll be happy to know that Groupon will officially be going public. Until GRPN shares officially start trading, the company’s value will remain fluid, but suffice it to say the market cap is likely going to be much more than the $6 billion Google offer that Groupon turned down. The last widely quoted estimate placed Groupon’s value at $25 billion, but we’ve seen with LinkedIn that pent up interest can quickly balloon to figures many times more pre-market estimates.<\/p>\n
That being said, we learned a bit from Groupon’s S-1 form: here are a few of the most interesting financials and figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6840],"tags":[1687,6039,6040],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20088"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20088"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20099,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20088\/revisions\/20099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}