Didn't work for Solyndra either.
Sadly, WE were the bagholders in that case....
As a fellow Solyndra "bagholder", I think it did, actually. The plan was never about solar.
As for the owner of Groupon, he missed his window. It's a brilliant model of operation, but there are no secrets to it, so it can be easily reproduced. The giants of the Internet will swallow him up now.