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I think what people keep forgetting here is that you are comparing all start-ups to the Googles and Facebooks of the world. There are MANY promising start ups u
by Xyik 11y ago
I think what people keep forgetting here is that you are comparing all start-ups to the Googles and Facebooks of the world. There are MANY promising start ups up there, it really depends on what your definition of a start up is. Number of employees? Publicly traded? Years since it was founded? Sure, working at Google/Facebook is probably better than working at Evernote. But is it better than working at Snapchat or Lyft?
- elif 11y agoSnapchat and Lyft are both $billion unicorns, not startups.
- pluma 11y agoOff topic, but I propose we stop calling "unicorn" startups unicorns and instead call them zebras (based on the phrase "if you hear hooves, think horse, not zebra"). Unicorns are called unicorns based on the presumption that they don't actually exist. "Unicorn" startups exist and there are enough of them that calling them something imaginary is evidently wrong. It would also make them sound less appealing (they're not magical and when it rains you may come to realize it was just a donkey with stripes painted on it all along). Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.