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by tokenadult 5083 days ago
A great line from the Short logic analysis: "At the moment, it’s costing them $1.43 to make $1, and it doesn’t look like it’s getting any cheaper."

This was the kind of thing that thoughtful business analysts were noticing in the weeks before the Groupon IPO: the company didn't have a sensible earnings model, even if it had "revenue" that dug it deeper and deeper into a hole.