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Re:Try to digest the Groupon story by catch23 on Friday June 03, 2011 @04:16PM (#2617827)
Why would that matter? He was asked, and he said yes. These were options paid to him for his involvement on the board, not money invested by him.

If you did some work for someone, and they paid you with stock instead of cash, wouldn't you feel like converting that to cash the first chance you get?

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Re:Try to digest the Groupon story by eurohacker on Friday June 03, 2011 @04:29PM (#2617861)
NO. if i would have a successful company like 37signals and enough money - i would keep the additional startups as long as possible, since there is not much to loose

especially would keep the shares of the "hottest" and "fastest growing" startup groupon

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Re:Try to digest the Groupon story by rayiner on Friday June 03, 2011 @05:13PM (#2618023)
What if he needed the liquidity?

There are all sorts of reasons to sell stock at a particular time that have nothing to do with cashing out on a company one believes will flame out.

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Re:Try to digest the Groupon story by eurohacker on Friday June 03, 2011 @05:49PM (#2618122)
he could have other startups to cash out on then , instead of groupon,
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Re:Try to digest the Groupon story by catch23 on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @11:20PM (#2655835)
sounds like you're just a hater.
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