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????日前，Crain's Chicago率先報道稱，每日團購交易巨頭Groupon已經聘請谷歌（Google）高管馬格?吉爾亞迪擔任公司新的首席運營官。吉爾亞迪目前為谷歌全球銷售規劃和技術副總裁，是谷歌在芝加哥級別最高的員工。 ????Groupon的羅伯?所羅門于上月離職，官方說法是他想返回加州北部，此后，Groupon創始人兼首席執行官安德魯?梅森一直在為公司物色新的二號人物（一些報道指出，所羅門和梅森一直不和，而另一些則質疑前雅虎高管所羅門是否真的有能力掌控如此大規模的業務）。 ????也就是說，吉爾亞迪成為了團購界的謝樂兒?桑德博格（謝樂兒?桑德博格為Facebook首席運營官——譯注）。當然，如果Facebook的Deals團購平臺真的做大，那么就沒吉爾亞迪什么事了。 ????這次事件中有意思的地方是，谷歌去年曾提出以60億美元收購Groupon，不過被后者斷然拒絕。據傳，Groupon正在準備首次公開募股（IPO），甚至還聘請了高盛（Goldman Sachs）和摩根士丹利（Morgan Stanley）作為主承銷商，公司估值目前已超過250億美元。聘請吉爾亞迪對于Groupon而言非常關鍵，因為如果公司高管人選懸而未決，那么公開市場的投資者將不大有興趣買進公司股票。預計吉爾亞迪要花幾個月才能在新公司安頓下來，接下來，Groupon可能就會[向美國證交會]提出上市申請…… ????吉爾亞迪于2009年10月加盟谷歌。在此之前的9個月，她在專注于個人消費者的私募股權公司Synetro Capital擔任負責人。更早之前，她在Discover Financial Services擔任首席市場官和負責卡片產品的執行副總裁。吉爾亞迪同時還是服裝零售商Jones Group的董事會成員。 ????譯者：項航 |
????Daily deals giant Groupon has hired Google (GOOG) executive Margo Georgiadis as its new chief operating officer, as first reported by Crain's Chicago. She currently is Google's highest-ranking officer in Chicago, where she serves as a VP of global sales planning and technology. ????Groupon founder and CEO Andrew Mason has been serving for a new number two since Rob Solomon quit last month, officially because he wanted to return to Northern California (some reports suggested he and Mason weren't on the some page, while others wondered if the former Yahoo exec was really up to the task of running such a large operation). ????So Georgiadis becomes Sheryl Sandberg for the daily deals world. Well, unless Facebook really scales its Deals platform, which would make Sheryl Sandberg the Sheryl Sandberg of the daily deals world. ????The interesting part of this, of course, is that Google offered to buy Groupon last year for $6 billion, but was rebuffed. Groupon now is rumored to be prepping an IPO that could value the company at upwards of $25 billion, having even hired Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as lead underwriters. Hiring Georgiadis is a vital next step, since public market investors would be loathe to buy into a company whose senior management is unsettled. Expect it will take Georgiadis a few months to settle in, and then perhaps an S-1 could be passing through Edgar... ????Prior to joining Google in October 2009, Georgiadis spent nine months as a principal with consumer-focused private equity firm Synetro Capital. Before that, she was chief marketing officer and executive VP of card products for Discover Financial Services. Georgiadis also is listed as a board member of apparel retailer Jones Group. |
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