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GRPN · OUR MISSION · 2026Our Mission

We get people offline through quality local experiences at great value.

Every agentic workflow, every AI operator, every deal exists to deliver this. The mission is 15 years old. The operating model is not.

Why local commerce

The same mission. A different machine.

People still want to experience their city — a great restaurant, a spa afternoon, a day trip they haven't discovered yet. What has changed is who and what makes that happen. In 2026, the discovery layer, the merchant tooling, and the fulfillment pipeline all run through AI. The mission is 15 years old. The method is not.

Groupon · founded 2008 · still the mission
-Our Values

Four things we actually believe.

  1. 01
    Judgment over process

    Judgment is the scarce resource.

    Agents handle the default work. You own the calls agents cannot make: when to override the model, when to ship the imperfect version, when to kill the experiment. Process is a starting point, not the product.

    // what agents can't do
  2. 02
    Build in the open

    No dark rooms. No polished reveals.

    Decisions documented. Specs visible. Experiments published with their failure modes. We surface rough decisions and sharpen them in public: inside the team and across functions. Opacity is waste.

    // default to visible
  3. 03
    Outcomes before comfort

    Measured on what ships.

    A perfect process that produces nothing is a failure. A rough process that ships real value is a win. We track what customers and merchants experience: not effort, not stand-ups attended, not intentions documented.

    // ship it
  4. 04
    Every function plays

    This is not engineering's transformation.

    Sales, finance, marketing, operations, people: every team is redesigning its operating model around agents. The AI transformation is a company posture, not a department. Passengers don't make it to the next phase.

    // company-wide
GRPN · OPEN SEATS · 2026

See open seats.

Building across engineering, product, data, sales, ops, finance, and people. Every role is an Operator role.

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We get people offline through quality local experiences at great value. That's still the mission. Everything above is what it takes to deliver it in 2026.