You've never seen unicorns quite like those at the center of Death of a Unicorn. Not the sparkly, sweet unicorns of modern-day pop culture, these are primal beings with sharp fangs, killer horns, and ...

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the grey space in between. Today we’re digging into unicorns: how many will find an exit through an ...

There has been a mountain of press lately about how investors are souring on unprofitable unicorns. We’ve seen this movie before; for a while, it’s all about growth, and profits be damned, then the ...

Over the past 15 years, several new investment terms have been coined, including 1) cryptocurrency (the word had existed, but not the asset itself), 2) nonfungible token, 2) special-purpose ...

Yes, you read the title correctly. The world is at 1,000 unicorn companies as of 2022. Of course, the term refers to a privately held startup company that has reached $1 billion in valuation. You know ...

WeWork became a VC-Unicorn and then lost its luster when investors realized that the company was a financial sieve. Theranos became a VC-Unicorn that was ostensibly based on a scientific breakthrough ...

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