I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.
I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.
I can't predict the future.
Yeah, it turns out that guys don't like deals on laser hair removal or pole dancing lessons.
I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall over. Or it's kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I'll just die.
The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.
All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of Internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure.
I think I was probably that kid in the neighborhood who you could expect once or twice a year to be knocking on your door trying to sell you something stupid.
Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture.
I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.
I just like to build things and do things.
If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you.
One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.
Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.
You've got to go out there and kill what you're going to eat.
In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas.
One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.
If I could get a deal on whatever my impulse was, whenever my impulse struck, and it was nearby, I would use that all the time. It would reshape the way that I shop.
I'm going to continue doing my thing and work my butt off to add value for shareholders and as long as they and the board see fit to keep me in this role, I feel enormously privileged to serve.
The list of companies that have added their own financial metrics is not a savory group.
