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Groupon wanted $1B in breakup fees from Google

• wccrawford 16y ago
  That fee seems a little excessive. I can see wanted an amount high enough to offset any disruption cause by the merge and then breakup, but that number is quite a bit higher than the disruption that would be caused, I'd think.
  • mortenjorck 16y ago
    I agree. But I think that fee included putting a dollar value on cultural disruption as well.
• brown9-2 16y ago
  "The tradeoff for assenting to a period of future ambiguity, of course, is the promise of a large breakup fee if the deal were not to go through. " Really? I would have thought the tradeoff was promise of the large purchase price.
• cd34 16y ago
  The rumors circulating around the deal surely did more for their valuation than their business model. They should be paying Google.
  • thibaut_barrere 16y ago
    Not sure - maybe they went disclosing more strategic items than they would have hoped... I'm really wondering.