Peter Barris
Peter Barris
Peter Barris is an American businessman and venture capitalist. He is a founding Venture Capital Investor in Groupon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
failure taking
Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks.
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I started my career at General Electric in a small office under a guy named Greg Liemandt, and his direct boss was Jack Welch. I would say those two have had the most profound impact on my career.
goes silicon valley
We talk to our partners in Silicon Valley every week, so we have a real sense of what goes on.
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We had this unbelievable faith that no business has done, quite frankly, and we tripped along the way doing it, but within two years, we were in 40-plus countries. So we ran at an amazing pace, and this is where venture capitalists play a role. Making Groupon into what it is today, we had no role in it; the entrepreneurs did it.