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Welcome to Motley Fool Money. Thanks for being here.

I'm your host, Chris L. Joining me in studio this week for Motley Fool 1, Jason Moser

and for Motley Fool's Million Dollar Portfolio, Charlie Travers and Ron Gross.

Good to see you guys. We got retail stocks. We've got gaming stocks.

We got the 25 best companies in America.

We'll talk about the future of Ford Motor and the automotive industry

with best selling author, Bryce Hoffman.

And as always, we got a few stocks on our radar.

But we're going to begin this week with Groupon.

Shares were down more than 20% on Thursday after terrible fourth quarter results.

But they bounced back Friday morning after CEO and founder Andrew Mason was fired

late on Thursday. And Jason, Andrew Mason said as much in his farewell letter, he had to go.

Yeah, and that was a good farewell letter. I mean, I think it was probably the most effective communication

we've seen from him thus far. And included a joke.

You don't usually get a joke in a resignation letter.

He really showed us true colors there, some humility and a good sense of humor.

But I mean, this is something that obviously needed to happen.

I don't think it's a surprise that it happened, especially even their core.

But I would also warn investors to please not be fooled in the thinking that just a leadership change

makes everything all better here because you still have the same underlying problem in a company

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