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I think a more accurate classification (from the popular journalism viewpoint) would be that a startup is a tech company that hasn't gone public yet.

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I agree, but I worked at a tech company that IPO'd in 2014, and to this day they still get referred to as a startup. E.g. Shopify, Etsy, GrubHub, Care.com, Zendesk, etc.

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