Sentences with word «decacorn»

Good luck can certainly lead to a great fund (and the opportunity to raise larger amounts of capital in subsequent investment funds); there clearly are some investors (or dart throwers) who in the past few years invested early in what became decacorns (including Uber and Airbnb) and are managing larger pools of capital as a result.
Alphabet's like some fantastic gilded castle surrounded by an insanely wide & lethal moat... and deep inside the castle you discover they have this incredible unicorn decacorn farm.
Such a portfolio would offer the same dynamics / economics as a traditional seed / early stage venture capital portfolio — a ground - floor opportunity to invest in startups which might only require millions in funding, but which might ultimately offer investors (despite the inevitable failures) the huge long - term upside potential of a unicorn (or even decacorn).
It is a unicorn on its way to becoming a decacorn.
A «decacorn» refers to a privately held startup worth more than $ 10 billion.
Finally, West claimed that his Yeezy apparel business was «the second - fastest growing business in history» and used the Silicon Valley buzzword «decacorn» to describe it.
But when too many startups became unicorns, a new class of startups emerged: «decacorns, «companies valued at more than $ 10 billion.
Two decacorns — Spotify and Dropbox — started the new year off with a bang.
For those that have reached (or far surpassed) «decacorn» valuations, or valuations of more than $ 10 billion, exiting starts to look tricky.
They're now hunting startups with the potential to rapidly reach a $ 10 billion valuation — or, as Green calls them, «decacorns
Unicorns and decacorns.
Which I suspect presents limited financial risk: Actual cash losses, net of tax, should remain a fraction of overall FCF, while ongoing investment is justified if Other Bets can boast / sell / spin - off a decacorn (say) in the next 3 - 5 years.
Between the fantasy zoo (unicorns, decacorns, dragons, etc) and the Fidelity quarterly reports that devalued big tech companies like Snapchat and Dropbox between 20 - 60 percent, we want to try and make the picture a bit simpler for those of you who want to make sure you know what everyone is talking about at the next water cooler break.
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