Does OpenAI count? Founded 8 years ago, but have completely blown up in the last couple years.

Ehh that’s pretty iffy, since I think they were already worth more than a billion dollars well before Oct. 2019…

Zepto is the largest grocery delivery service in India and was YC Winter 2021, and currently is valued at $5B.

Realistically people were making these kinds of points back in 2015, and now a large percentage of the lists of unicorns were from somewhere around 2015. It just takes time for most of these companies to become well-known unicorns. The last five years is always the worst five years, until you wait another five years and in hindsight consider it a golden era.

Edit: although I do think that the couple years of high interest rates will slow the growth of startups from this era, since it has a meaningful impact on how much cash VCs can spend. The AI boom at the tail end of high interest rates will probably cover a bit of that though; OpenAI is the first runaway success but I'm pretty sure it's not going to be the last.

Thanks, that does seem like a bonafide ‘unicorn’ by any metric.