Is Groupon the Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread

June 23rd, 2011 | Current News and Information | G5 Staff

Literally Worth Billions

If you spend very much time online looking for great discounted deals, you have probably heard of a company called Groupon. While you may not know exactly what Groupon does or how it operates, two things are certain; it has raised a lot of seed capital and turned down a $6 billion dollar buy-out offer by Google. How can a company that most people are unfamiliar with and only two years old be worth 6 billion dollars? It’s simple, because financial experts and capital investors say so.

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