So I checked that article, one company they say is bending spoon.<p>I check what products offer bending spoon, that's a tech company that, according to its director, creates nothing but buy already existing companies and improve them.<p>That's how they make money. Great plan if you know what you're doing and have smart people with lots of skills in various fields.<p>So I check what they have done recently.<p>They bought Evernote, ramped up the paid tier price, decreased the amount of features in the free tier, lost a lot of customer in the process but because they also fired all of the development team in the US and Chile, they now made Evernote profitable!<p>They basically killed the app futur development, killed any interest for futur user (free tier), and makes money from the few people that have too many notes to consider switching to a cheaper and better alternative.<p>In my book, they made a not so great company that could success with the right approach into a zombie company just waiting to die.<p>Also they made the immuni app.<p>Immuni was an open-source COVID-19 contact tracing app used for digital contact tracing in Italy, dismissed on 31 December 2022, after a long and debated criticism for having been a failure due to the lack of trust placed by citizens<p>And so this is a unicorn :)<p>Where are those people with money looking to invest in 'successful' projects ? I got a bridge to sell to them !
I feel some serious amount of despair at lists like this. Almost every single one of these start-ups is stupid, even if they might have some legitimate reason to exist.<p>How can Europe continue to exist like this.