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Re:Groupon President and COO Rob Solomon Steps Down by brown9-2 on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @10:00PM (#2357563)
That's all the backstory you need.

And this comes from who...?

Re:Groupon President and COO Rob Solomon Steps Down by jprobert on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @11:15PM (#2357791)
If this was a planned exit all along and he was only meant to be on short term then Groupon would have prepared a better statement. I assume that whatever equity he has he'll keep as he was looking for a big pay day and I don't know why he would pass that up.