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BC has produced 9 tech businesses worth $1B+ in 9 months

BC has produced 9 tech businesses worth $1B+ in 9 months

Welcome to Unicorn Country.

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Aug 24, 2021
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Welcome to Unicorn Country

Back in 2013, venture capitalist Aileen Lee wanted a word to make it easy to describe private tech companies worth $1 billion or more. “I played with different words like ‘home run,’ ‘megahit,’ and they just all sounded kind of ‘blah.’ So I put in ‘unicorn’ because… these are very rare companies in the sense that there are thou…

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