{"id":419,"date":"2011-09-13T14:41:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T18:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/?p=419"},"modified":"2011-09-13T14:41:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T18:41:25","slug":"dont-get-greedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/dont-get-greedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Get Greedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, Groupon reportedly turns down $6b from Google. \u00a0I was shocked when I heard that, and then stunned when I saw their financials filed with the SEC. \u00a0Now, they&#8217;re surrounded by competitors, pulling their IPO, and the SEC is questioning the CEO&#8217;s leaked all-hands memo for violation of quiet period rules. \u00a0I wonder if they wonder about the Google offer.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Business Insider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/heres-the-gossip-on-apples-800-million-offer-for-one-sexy-silicon-valley-startup-dropbox-2011-9\">is reporting that Dropbox turned down $800m<\/a> from Apple. \u00a0 I suspect (without data), that Dropbox is much less unprofitable than Groupon, but I&#8217;m still shocked. \u00a0iCloud isn&#8217;t perfect, but Dropbox&#8217;s long-term risk is that file sharing becomes an OS &amp; app feature.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get greedy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, Groupon reportedly turns down $6b from Google. \u00a0I was shocked when I heard that, and then stunned when I saw their financials filed with the SEC. \u00a0Now, they&#8217;re surrounded by competitors, pulling their IPO, and the SEC is questioning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/dont-get-greedy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}