Firing Andrew Mason Won’t Save Groupon - Businessweek

From a Groupon reality check

"In firing Mason, Groupon has lost one of the most interesting things it had left. How many CEOs buy a pony for their guests, as Mason did when Michael Bloomberg (the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, publisher of Businessweek.com) visited Groupon’s Chicago headquarters? Who tweets about their firing with the cryptic, “Apparently, sharing oranges is necessary but insufficient”? Or defends his tenure by noting, “If Groupon was Battletoads, it would be like I made it all the way to the Terra Tubes without dying on my first ever play through.” We’ll miss that."

Firing Andrew Mason Won’t Save Groupon - Businessweek