unicorns

Certainly some of the current unicorns will likely become non-unicorns at some point by going public or by merging with a public company.

Stock in the unicorns is going to be worth something -- it's just frustrating to try to realize that value right now.

Any particular explanation for the dramatic increase in unicorns within San Francisco starting around 2011?

You don't think that's true of the US with its few unicorns?

He's most likely got a nice investment in a few future unicorns.

Then they won't be unicorns and people's default expectations will change.

I know liberals like to try to make unicorns exist but economics cuts through most of the lies and bullshit of politics.

My point is that the latency that exist in privately funded unicorns can end up creating a bubble exactly because the feedback loop is too slow.

Most unicorns that came from the YC program started with 20k not long ago.

This is on the same level as trying to prove that something doesn't exist eg I am not a --- (fill in the blank) is akin to Unicorns don't exist.

> I know liberals like to try to make unicorns exist but economics cuts through most of the lies and bullshit of politics.

It's always tempting to look for unicorns when you have hundreds of resumes to choose from, but when you have a likable contractor doing good work, there's no reason not to give him/her an offer.

The problem with the "unicorns" in the private market is that its getting funded size wise as if it's a publicly traded company.

I'm still not convinced that a lot of these high-flying "unicorns" are really worth their valuations in a meaningful way.

But look at how many multi-billion dollar "unicorns" are messaging companies.

Of the people I know who are currently theoretically rich, most are tied to "unicorns", because they can't sell their insider shares.

The reality is that the credit isn't very meaningful to people like me (and I am pretty typical among people who work at Unicorns).

Unicorns feel like an artifact of making it a little too hard to go public.

Unicorns and Valuations are like Schrödinger's cat...