Groupon Now Has 8,000 Employees—About Half Of Them Salesmen | TechCrunch

http://twitter.com/#!/Bill_Gross/status/76023785639264257 Groupon, as everyone knows by now, is growing like crazy. How crazy? CEO Andrew Mason just revealed at the D9 technology conference that he now employs 8,000 people, which is up from 1,500 a year ago. That means it grew headcount by 433 percent. About half of its employees are sales people. Signing up local businesses to offer group discoun