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Many of these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unicorn_startup_compan... could've been in theory done (to the point that there was no room for a multi-$b startup) by Google (Canva, Instacart, Telegram, Miro, Airtable), but weren't.

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This is a good list, but most of these Unicorns were product of zero interest rates. The valuations are down, we just don't know how much and some of the companies on the list are already bankrupt like Voyager. Read here [1] about the astonishing rise of the unicorns in the last 3 years.

Also a billion $ unicorn is not the same as billion $ revenue.

[1] https://wolfstreet.com/2023/04/26/what-are-we-going-to-do-wi...

Your contributions to this discussion have been very thoughtful and quite interesting to read. Upvotes stopped sufficing. Thanks for adding so much!

Thanks for mentioning, I appreciate it. What was most helpful or interesting?

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