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You have the current unicorns, basically anything from about the time YC started, and then you have the old school unicorns. For comparison, Microsoft IPOed in
by oblio 2y ago
You have the current unicorns, basically anything from about the time YC started, and then you have the old school unicorns.
For comparison, Microsoft IPOed in 1986:
> The company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO) and subsequent rise in its share price created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft employees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
I would really, really want to know if anything more recent has gotten to that level of widespread distribution of the riches.
I kind of doubt it, such an event would probably be considered Communist by modern standards :-)
- kaiokendev 2y agoFacebook, although it didn't have nearly as many employees upon its IPO
- ilamont 2y agoan estimated 12,000 millionaires One of them is my neighbor, an early Microsoft employee. She basically retired in her 30s.
- dilyevsky 2y agoGoogle and Facebook of the more recent ones, though it was nowhere near 12000 i think
- kelnos 2y agoWhich is exactly the point the GP was making, I think.