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Groupon CEO Chugs Beer; Media Throws Hissy Fit

Andrew Mason, CEO of GRPN, “chugged” a beer during a serious company meeting, which has drawn out the prohibition crowd at CNBC to ridicule him as being “immature.”

Mason delivered this message, reports Shira Ovide of the Wall Street Journal, after chugging beer from a company fridge. At one point during his presentation, his “voice broke and he said ‘Sorry, too much beer.'”

Sorry, but this is the very definition of making a mountain out of a mole hill.

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4 comments

  1. The Equalizer

    LOL. The people that brought the world the idea of the three-martini lunch, telling a CEO not to have a beer on the job.

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  2. Yabollox

    That was a belch….

    (voice broke)

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  3. Mr. Cain Thaler

    If you can’t drink at board meetings of your flagging company then, I mean, what’s the point?

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  4. GoingLikeSixty

    Groupon for torture/porn filmmaker tour. See other similar Groupons that are being reevaluated here:
    http://goinglikesixty.com/2012/04/beer-swilling-groupon-ceo-kills-ideas-including-torture-porn-headquarters-tour-and-more/

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