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Everyone enjoys seeing someone else get their comeuppance (which may or may not be the word you were looking for). Is that something to be proud of? Certainly n
by Shog9 11y ago
Everyone enjoys seeing someone else get their comeuppance (which may or may not be the word you were looking for). Is that something to be proud of? Certainly not, but neither should it be particularly shocking.
If you wanna wage a campaign against this, then you might as well start with the term "unicorn", which is itself subtly mocking; after all, unicorns aren't rare: they are non-existent. The root term implies the same thing that bothers you about the derived -corpse: these valuations are irrational, and a reckoning will be had.
- jacquesm 11y agoThat's something else entirely, it does not point at all start-ups. Anyway, I disagree with the 'unicorn' bullshit as much as anybody else, the whole idea that some start-ups are 'special' before they've actually reached the cashflow positive state is a troublesome development. The cycle of hype definitely could use some pushback but to label failed start-ups with a thinly veiled form of name-calling is imho not fair. We'll make an exception for those start-ups that call themselves unicorns.