This list is quite confusing.<p>What defines "start-up"?<p>Take go-pro, they're a product company that had huge success with a hit product. They successfully re-invested to keep that product business successful and the business grew to 1bn.<p>Does unicorn just mean non-publically traded company worth > 1bn?
Crazy thought: If there's so many billion dollar startups now, maybe we shouldn't be referring to them as Unicorns anymore? Taking a term that was used to refer to exceptional businesses and proliferating the use of it makes me even more weary of VC-run companies than I already am.
Does anyone know anybody who has ever ordered something from jet.com? No one I've asked has ever heard of it, and they did an enormous media blitz in Boston.
It's quite scary to see so many names I've never even heard about before, and then to see some names that clearly make no sense also there.<p>Let's face it, for instance, Avast? Seriously who came up with that insane valuation for a company like Avast?
Prior to an IPO or acquisition, valuations have approximately the precision and accuracy of agile estimates chosen from a drop-down list populated with values from an echo chamber inhabited by....
At first I thought these were page load times until I read the description.<p>On topicL I am not from the US, and I've never hear of Jet, but so have none of 8 randomly selectedfriends from the US.