#1 is Klarna, the company that will let you finance a pizza over the next 4 months. Not sure I'd be trumpeting that as innovative.
Easy to discount companies when you overly simplify them -
ie “#2 in the US is Stripe, the company that lets you pay on a credit card. Not sure if I’d be trumpeting that as innovative!”
I didn’t.
I looked at the list, it might be my US-centric bias but I'd only heard of 2 in that list before and they weren't big
"might be"
Ever heard of fucking Spotify?
You mean the low margin unprofitable company that is at the mercy of the record labels and their “product” is the equivalent of a minor division for Google, Amazon and Apple?
Their product is still better designed than the ones came out of Google, Amazon and Apple.
Maybe so. But isn’t it a Pyrrhic victory for a for profit company to have a better designed product that is still losing money? That’s not exactly a definition of a “successful company”
I don't know what you mean by "weren't big" - $1B is the absolute smallest you can be to be a unicorn.