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I own over four ties.
I don't get stressed out.
I can't predict the future.
We can't be afraid to be weird.
A lot of people can raise money.
Life is too short to be a boring company.
I just like to build things and do things.
I'm weird. But I'm a pretty serious person.
I find myself using the word 'executives' now.
Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.
In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.
I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.
I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.
One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.
If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
Local businesses have never had a great way to get customers in the door.
In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
Everybody loves a deal on a restaurant or skydiving or laser-hair removal.
You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.
It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like.
If you look at Myspace, Facebook was a better product. It's as simple as that.
If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.
The list of companies that have added their own financial metrics is not a savory group.
Yeah, it turns out that guys don't like deals on laser hair removal or pole dancing lessons.
If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself.
I think the big thing about Groupon is just people had never seen anything grow quite so fast.
I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.
If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.
When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.
If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?
Globally local commerce is a $12 to $14 trillion market. If we get 10 percent of that, we'll be very happy.
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.
The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.
If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you.
If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret.
Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.
Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.
Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there's something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO.
One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.
I think I was probably that kid in the neighborhood who you could expect once or twice a year to be knocking on your door trying to sell you something stupid.
I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.
After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired today.
Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.
I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall over. Or it's kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I'll just die.
If I could get a deal on whatever my impulse was, whenever my impulse struck, and it was nearby, I would use that all the time. It would reshape the way that I shop.
Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of Internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure.
I'm appalled that an industry has grown around teaching a practice as wholesome and spiritual as yoga, so I decided to create my own free video to help people get started.