"Groupon's IPO Skyrockets: 'As Near a Perfect Launch as a Company Could Hope for'" PBS Newshour 11/4/2011
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JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): It's been just three years since Groupon pioneered the idea of a business built around selling Internet coupons and daily deals to a mass audience. Today, it began selling on the stock market, with one of the largest public offerings for a tech company since Google.
At its height today, shares sold for as much as $31 apiece, pushing the value of the company to nearly $20 billion. Its initial offering of 5 percent of its shares raised more than $700 million for the Chicago-based company. By the end of the day, it closed at a little more than $26 a share.
But for all of its high-flying trading today, questions have persisted about the company, about its business model, and the staying power of that tech sector.
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