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What’s next for Twilio and its unicorn brethren?
- minimaxir 10y ago> The companies in the following chart are deliberately not labeled. We are looking at general market trends, not comparing companies. What the hell? You absolutely have to compare tech company performance against each other, normalizing for scale and industry. The following chart even has a blank X-axis for "Time," where the Time-Since-IPO is variable for the 5 companies mentioned. This method of deriving general trends as an explanation of IPO performance in light of Twilio's 5 day performance follows the same logic as correlation-implying-causation.
- CPLX 10y agoTechCrunch often does an excellent job of reporting, for certain kinds of tech stories. This kind of analysis isn't one of them.