I work in one of those. Straight from the beginning it’s been pretty standard 9-5 and decent salary. Slow and steady growth for half a decade and now it’s turni

I work in one of those. Straight from the beginning it’s been pretty standard 9-5 and decent salary. Slow and steady growth for half a decade and now it’s turning a profit. But here are the things that are different: * Nobody is earning millions here. The salary is roughly at market rate, if not slightly below. * The funding is a parent-corporation sort of relationship that plays the long game and doesn’t expect to sell after 5 years. But it also means people are paid entirely in real money. * We only hire as many as we need and not entire divisions to simultaneously re-invent deep learning, target the whole world, and bleed billions of investor dollars in the process. Finally, this startup (well, scale-up I suppose) is European, and not US-based, and I think the whole unicorn-based way of running things is slightly foreign around here. So is it a “startup” or just a business growing its customer base with a successful product?