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Seriously - A Unicorn Tracker?
Let’s First Agree Definitions
The article on CB Insights tells us that …
Collectively, US unicorns are worth approximately $360B.
That sentence is wrong, misleading and can cost you money if you aren’t careful.
Collectively, US unicorns are valued approximately $360B.
Worth:
an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value, eg “10 dollars worth of gasoline”
Value:
1] the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else 2] an ideal accepted by some individual or group
Very specifically Unicorns are valued by a very small tight group of people who are prepared to spend their money in a certain way. And since no one likes a down round - each round gets higher. Like I have written before - remember when Dropbox was the world’s 5th most valuable start up … halcyon days. FInal link - this goes back a ways … and is a nice explanation of why the private markets are not at all the same as the public markets. If they are - Beyond Bridges is for sale and we are worth $100 million.