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Kara Swisher got her hands on Groupon CEO Andrew Mason’s “pugnacious email memo to his thousands of employees,” in which he writes:
This weekend, I did a Google News search on our company — my first in awhile. The first story that popped up was called The Fall of Groupon: Is the Daily Deals Site Running Out of Cash? I laughed when I read the headline (in the car by myself, weirdly). First — with this article, the degree to which we’re getting the shit kicked out of us in the press had finally crossed the threshold from “annoying” to “hilarious.”
FYI, that “hilarious” search-engine-optimized piece — No. 1 on Google News! — was written by The Atlantic’s Nicholas Jackson and posted on Aug. 19. Meanwhile, Henry Blodget suspects that Mason is using Swisher to get around SEC “quiet rules” by giving her the memo. “Now, we suppose it’s possible that this email was accidentally ‘leaked’ to Kara by a disgruntled, traitorous Groupon employee. But we’d bet real money that it wasn’t.” Ben Popper has asked Swisher to comment.
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