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Re:Five Myths About Building Billion-Dollar Startups by mohanmcgeek on Sunday November 21, 2021 @12:07AM (#29294331)
> I can name more off the top of my head

Only spacex here is a unicorn.Everything else has been acquired or listed

And the author seems to talk about billion dollar start-ups, not necessarily just unicorns but only in the past decade.

Most the PayPal Mafia companies were $1B+ Already in 2000s.

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Re:Five Myths About Building Billion-Dollar Startups by rkk3 on Sunday November 21, 2021 @02:50AM (#29294823)
> Only spacex here is a unicorn.Everything else has been acquired or listed

I don't know what your point it, almost every company mentioned in this article has been acquired or listed...

> the author seems to talk about billion dollar start-ups, not necessarily just unicorns but only in the past decade.

They list several companies made in 00's; Mulesoft, Dropbox, Uber, Whatsapp... Qualtrics was made in 2002 almost 2 decades ago.

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Re:Five Myths About Building Billion-Dollar Startups by mohanmcgeek on Sunday November 21, 2021 @07:19AM (#29295835)
> I don't know what your point it

My apologies. Unicorns are supposed to be private companies with $1B+ valuations

Only spacex is private.

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Re:Five Myths About Building Billion-Dollar Startups by rkk3 on Sunday November 21, 2021 @10:44AM (#29296995)
Incredibly pedantic. They were at one point in time. The referenced chart was "Employers with more than 5 unicorns produced" it doesn't stop counting because they get aquired.
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