[incision]

I don't see anyone making negative comments about this guy as an individual, just Living Social as a business.

Personally, I couldn't find much positive to say about them when they started laying people off back in November[1] and I don't see much positive now.

You're right, I can't claim to have created anything with "near as much reach as LS" or as the same "massive consumer impact".

However, I can't see what reach or impact LS had that fellow failing business Groupon didn't.

As I said back in November, it sure looks like they just copied a momentarily hot, yet broken business model, snagged a bunch of fancy office space and sought tax breaks [2] while posting huge loses.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4845253

2: http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2012/07/10/living...

[andyjsong]

When you're a co-founder of a business, and someone rags on it, they take it very personally. They might not make it apparent to the public, but they care, a lot.

[flip_do]

If he cared that much, then why would he leave? A captain should go down with his ship. Here's a guy who made a boatload of money, and now he's leaving 4,000 employees behind who are probably going to be looking for new jobs inside of a year. He should take it personally.