You're missing my point. I was assailing your (poor) logic in my reply to your criticism, not making a point about Groupon.
You were saying that I was wrong, just look at their revenue. I replied, revenue doesn't mean anything, it's easy to build a giant revenue machine. Your point was crap. Now you are coming up with all sorts of other facts and analysis, which is certainly much more valuable than your original "just look at all that juicy revenue" argument. Again, I was pointing out how terrible and stupid the 'look at all that revenue' argument was by showing I could create another company with even more revenue that is even more worthless. If you have an issue with this, I would stop using revenue as a basis for anything since it is a shit indicator.
Again, GM has MASSIVE revenue, that has no bearing on how good of an investment it would be.
Oh please. So you weren't actually saying that Groupon is in poor shape, you were just debating me for debating's sake?
And that when I pulled out "other facts and analysis" -- like the fact that Groupon must feel they're doing the right thing by spending a ton of money to grow their customer base (duh) -- you've got nothing to say?
And you really think in your post that you were "showing you could create another company with even more revenue?" Because what you're missing is you made up a fantasy example and you're calling it a counterpoint. It had no merit and was nothing but empty calories.
But people are investing a lot of money in Groupon. And their revenue growth that you dismiss is no small part of that, Justin.
Do you have any idea how rare a billion dollar business is?
Look at my comment history. I've got a long history here of reasonable discussion. But you've brought nothing to the table here. You've made no cogent argument.
You were saying that I was wrong, just look at their revenue. I replied, revenue doesn't mean anything, it's easy to build a giant revenue machine. Your point was crap. Now you are coming up with all sorts of other facts and analysis, which is certainly much more valuable than your original "just look at all that juicy revenue" argument. Again, I was pointing out how terrible and stupid the 'look at all that revenue' argument was by showing I could create another company with even more revenue that is even more worthless. If you have an issue with this, I would stop using revenue as a basis for anything since it is a shit indicator.
Again, GM has MASSIVE revenue, that has no bearing on how good of an investment it would be.