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Agreed. I don't really see a tech angle to this story, other than the fact that it's a website...

• 001sky 13y ago
  Is groupon a tech company? They seemed to have a "tech ipo".
  • VladRussian2 13y ago
    yes, that's my question as well. Why do i even know about Groupon? It was a lot on HN. And everytime i was wondering why it was here.
  • bostonpete 13y ago
    I guess I'd turn that around and ask if every online retail site should be considered a tech company? Was Groupon widely covered by the tech press? That's not my recollection but I could be mistaken. One could perhaps question whether Groupon deserved the coverage it got as a "tech company", but that doesn't mean other online retailers should necessarily be covered by the tech press.
    • 001sky 13y ago
      To the GPs point, groupon was a sucessful hack.[1] It had young neophyte managment and massive losses. VCs thought is was worth 10's of $Billions. It was covered like the next coming of Netscape...[2] [1] The nature of the "hack" itself used digital media (email, digital coupons). The main breakthrough seems more of a social/business/marketing hack than anything uniquely driven by hard tech programming or engineering, though. Although I could be corrected on this latter point by someone with specific knowledge. [2] Part of the story was very high growth and market penetration. There was much "its different this time" type discussion about how this was all enabled by technology.
  • gaius 13y ago
    This is a question we were asking in the mid-90s about lastminute.com.