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The tech industry has terrible, ironic names. A unicorn isn’t unlikely. It’s imaginary. It doesn’t exist.
by stephenr 8y ago
The tech industry has terrible, ironic names.
A unicorn isn’t unlikely. It’s imaginary. It doesn’t exist.
- wolco 8y agoThe name may apply well. The billion dollar valuations are as imaginary as the profits.
- gumby 8y agoPrecisely the point of Aileen Lee (of Cowboy Ventures) when she coined the term. But like "cloud" it's been gobbled up by people who didn't know what it meant and has been bent into a parody of itself. (not to imply at all that a "unicorn firm" is as profound an idea as not caring how your packets are routed but rather connecting to a resource on the network)