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This article is full of incorrect data: Etsy and Groupon are already public. Instagram, Whatsapp acquired by Facebook, Yammer by Microsoft. The industry defini
by gregdoesit 11y ago
This article is full of incorrect data: Etsy and Groupon are already public. Instagram, Whatsapp acquired by Facebook, Yammer by Microsoft.
The industry definition of a unicorn: a non public company, that took less then 10 years to have a market value of over $1B. Which is why - ironically - the company I work at, Skyscanner is never listed as a unicorn on any of these lists. This is because it took them 11 years to reach the >$1B valuation mark.
Disappointed with the quality of this Venturebeat article.
- andre_m 11y agoI agree with you! Zalando went public in October 2014. Hudson’s Bay has agreed to acquire Gilt Groupe for $250 million in cash. PCH International acquired Fab for an undisclosed sum...