What's it like to work at early Groupon #shorts

18 May 2023 · 1 min

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Charles Cormier recalls working at Groupon before it went public, when the company had fewer than 1,000 employees. He learned to sell, developed leadership skills fast, and thrived in a sink-or-swim environment where mistakes were part of growth.

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What lessons have you learned from your time there?
I like to say I grew up at Groupon, you know, prior to that. It was my first sort of foray into what became, you know, the tech industry. I didn't realize at the time when I was going to work there as an account executive early on pre IPO sub 1000 employees, that I was joining a tech company. And then that would wind up being sort of a defining factor in the rest of my career. But I went there and I experienced all of the incredible things that you do with a unicorn growth tech company. I learned how to be an incredible salesperson, and I learned how to be a leader. And I made a ton of mistakes, and I was given a lot of autonomy before I was ready, which means it was a lot of sink or swimming.