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Re:Andrew Mason's statement about being fired as Groupon CEO by arizoo on Thursday February 28, 2013 @05:45PM (#5301622)
"My biggest regrets are the moments that I let a lack of data override my intuition on what’s best for our customers."

lack of data that overrides intuition? If it was a pile of data I could understand, but lack? That's when intuition come handy no?

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Re:Andrew Mason's statement about being fired as Groupon CEO by bcbrown on Thursday February 28, 2013 @06:13PM (#5301745)
I'm guessing he had an intuition that X was the right thing to do, but there was no data to support doing X.
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Re:Andrew Mason's statement about being fired as Groupon CEO by rz2k on Thursday February 28, 2013 @07:15PM (#5301990)
I was wondering if it was all the made up numbers he's put out over the years, but that hurt investors rather than customers.
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Re:Andrew Mason's statement about being fired as Groupon CEO by ErikAugust on Thursday February 28, 2013 @06:15PM (#5301748)
That also leaves me a bit confused.
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