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Move Along - Nothing To See Here
I have a business worth $1,000. If you give me $1,000,000 dollars for 10% of my shares - that ‘values’ my company at $10,000,000 - overnight - BUT - is it really worth 1,000 times as much = just because I have convinced you that with $1 million dollars - we can conquer the world ?
More importantly - 3 months down the line - you and I convince a new dude to drop another 10 million dollars into the business - and we give him 10% of the company …. Over night - my company is now ‘worth’ $100 million - and my original investor’s investment is now ‘worth’ $10 million - a ten fold ‘return’ in 3 months ! See what I did there ? I am not saying that the Unicorns aren’t going to turn into something great. I am saying that there is zero oversight on this process - rather a bunch of insiders trading on Futures - with no watchdog. What could possibly go wrong ?
A curated leaderboard of companies that were at one point privately worth $1B or more and subsequently exited, either by acquisition or IPO.
Seems like a lot apparently !
Source : Crunchable (http://techcrunch.com/unicorn-leaderboard/exited/)