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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...

Google Search, Android, Chrome, Gmail, Google Play Store, and YouTube

Also Google Maps, Google Photos and Google Drive have more than 1B users.

It doesn't seems to be true.

There were articles that Microsoft was helping AMD, but the denied it.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/microsoft-and-amd-ar...

For comparison I got ns/url=194.976 on Apple MacBook Pro M1.

Uber revenue in 2022 was 31B. Lyft revenue was 4B. This is not duopoly. Lyft is much smaller, loosing 1.5B per year and the stock price crashed. They will have hard time to keep the employees and keep the drivers.

They may survive, but it will be hard. A bug cut like this will destroy the morale in the company. What works in their favor is that the entire tech industry is cutting jobs right now and they don't look like an exception.

If the cuts are done well, they'll cut the most of the future projects and focus on a few key areas. Still it is a high risk for them and they may not survive.

The cuts are huge:

- The latest cuts could impact 30% or more of Lyft’s more than 4,000 employees

- The cuts could help Lyft slash 50% of its costs

Here is another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbxE_qODnKA

Here is another report: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/articleComments/bob-lee-san-f...

The site will be locked, with no further updates made after April 10th 2023. The site will be available in read-only mode for a limited period afterwards.

This news comes after the CEO of Twitch announced that he is leaving the company [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35184011

The stock price is down 2.5% today. The investors didn't like it for some reason.

Correct. The stock is up 5% this morning.

Here is an website which tracks projects around bay area: https://sfyimby.com

$5B last year 2022.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1305708/tiktok-ad-revenu...

"Revenue is falling sure"

Your numbers show that the revenue is increasing, but the growth is slower, which is very different than the revenue is falling.

The Verge has more information [1]

"This comes just months after LastPass confirmed that hackers had stolen some of its source code in August and had access to LastPass’ internal systems for four days before getting detected. It looks like this new attack is connected, as Loubba says it determined that hackers gained access to user data “using information obtained in the August 2022 incident.”"

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/30/23486902/lastpass-hacker...

The hacker news title says (1962), but the article is dated "October 15, 1991" and it references "Database Systems: Achievements and Opportunities" in the October, 1991, issue of the Communications.

How do you store your data set? And do you have any open source releases?

I'm sorry to hear that. You should look at Celsius as an example what happen next. They are further down on the bankruptcy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CelsiusNetwork/

$3B. Twitter operational costs are $3B or 60%.

I'm not sure about this. Twitter operation expenses are $3B on $5B revenue. They'll have to cut significantly the operational expenses and some these will be engineers.

There are RSUs. When a company goes private, the RSUs convert to cash on the same vesting schedule. Of course the company can cancel them, but they usually keep the vesting schedule to keep the employees.

For the Twitter employees (if they keep their jobs and the RSUs are not canceled) this is a very good deal, because the stock price was really high due to the deal.

We also peak bubble right now. There were similar stories 2006 and before.

The weather is not perfect in the Bay Area. The perfect weather is 300 miles south in Santa Barbara.

Usually, the RSUs are converted to cash and the RSUs schedule is kept the same. The workers which remain int he company receive cash on the same schedule.Hence Letting some people go before the RSU date saves money.

Palantir 19 years old - 2021 R&D expenses were 25%, 2020 - 50% https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/PLTR/income-statement

RingCentral - 23 years old - R&D Expenses increasing for the last 3 or 4 years https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/RNG/income-statement

Younger than the other companies on your list. Microsoft is 47 years old.

Thank you for the post. Twitter is also the youngest company on your list. The percent spent on R&D goes done when the company get older.