You weren't kidding!

> I'm OK with having failed at this part of the journey. 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.

You sharing this made it the 6th most read article on the guardian today as of right now

Thanks for pointing that out, now it's 5th!

WTH? How much traffic is this thread getting or alternatively, how little traffic does the guardian get?

not a lot usually. "popular" places like the guardian are way less visited than you might think. In a similar vein a best seller book is only 5000 - 10000 books.

Pour one out for Andrew. They did many things that didn't scale that customers loved them for, and then couldn't scale. They burned lots of cash on outside sales, i.e., flying a rep from another city to visit a potential client small restaurant. And being a publicly-traded company is often more trouble than it's worth.

PS: I used to live in a van on the street near the PA HQ. Someone there had a tiny trailer in the parking lot but I couldn't tell if were living it or just storing it.

thanks for sharing, fantastic letter