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Old 01-22-2011, 12:52 PM  
epitome
So Fucking Lame
 
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Originally Posted by woj View Post
how the fuck are they worth billions? It looks like something that be cloned very easily..
Anyone can clone the script and groupon could care less about that.

It is much harder to get their traffic and the 3500 or whatever employees they have to make such a site successful.

The biggest thing they have to worry about is merchants deciding it isn't a good idea for generating business.

It is along the lines of saying Facebook will be replaced tomorrow or next week because it used to be MySpace and Friendster before that when that is an invalid argument and neither of them have anywhere near what Facebook does.
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