Unicorns

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David Baszucki is standing on stage with a patterned blue screen behind him.
Lifestyle

Even after cramming its video game with Walmart ads and billboards, Roblox struggles to tap into the wallets of extremely online Gen Alpha

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May 9, 2024
Cody Rigsby
Retail

Peloton, the fallen fitness unicorn, faces a harsh truth despite its shiny new deal with Hyatt hotels: ‘I don’t think they thought [about] what was going to happen post-pandemic’

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May 1, 2024
Former MedMen CEO Adam Bierman at the 2018 opening of the company's Venice Beach retail location.
Finance

MedMen’s spectacular collapse is complete: Just six years after earning a whopping $3 billion valuation, the onetime legal cannabis darling has declared bankruptcy

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April 29, 2024
Former Allbirds CEO Joey Zwillinger is wearing a tuxedo and standing at a glass podium.
Retail

Nasdaq just gave former unicorn Allbirds a 6-month warning to raise its stock price or risk getting booted—experts say to look at its B Corp status

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April 11, 2024
BlaBlaCar co-founder and chief executive officer Nicolas Brusson gives an interview during the 2017 Web Summit in Lisbon on November 9, 2017.
Retail

French carpooling app BlaBlaCar secures $108 million to ‘buy other firms and grow larger’ after turning first profit

By Mark Bergen and Bloomberg
April 3, 2024
Mike Cessario is wearing a black Metallica T-shirt and is sitting in front of a background overlooking a skyline.
Success

How a 41-year-old former ad man birthed a $1.4 billion beverage unicorn by putting water in a can: ‘There’s no reason that only beer can have that kind of cool look and feel’

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March 15, 2024
Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz
Tech

VC firm Andreessen Horowitz plans to raise billions for AI, with portions devoted to two funds

By Sarah McBride and Bloomberg
March 7, 2024
Exclusive: Mews, hotel management software provider, is now a unicorn
Newsletters

Exclusive: Mews, hotel management software provider, is now a unicorn

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March 4, 2024
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Tech

Could AI create a one-person unicorn? Sam Altman thinks so—and Silicon Valley sees the technology ‘waiting for us’

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February 4, 2024
PayPal website on a smartphone
Newsletters

PayPal finds a new use for its stablecoin as it looks for ways to fend off Apple

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January 29, 2024
What the crypto world can learn from the fate of ‘unicorpses’
Newsletters

What the crypto world can learn from the fate of ‘unicorpses’

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January 26, 2024
The dawning of the unicorpses: The boom and bust of billion-dollar startups
Newsletters

The dawning of the unicorpses: The boom and bust of billion-dollar startups

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January 26, 2024
Aileen Lee, the VC who coined ‘unicorns,’ on why it’s so hard to track billion dollar startups—and what she thinks of their dark cousins, ‘unicorpses’
Newsletters

Aileen Lee, the VC who coined ‘unicorns,’ on why it’s so hard to track billion dollar startups—and what she thinks of their dark cousins, ‘unicorpses’

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January 25, 2024
How scooter startup Bird, the sharing economy’s next big thing, went from $2.5 billion smash hit to roadkill in record time
Magazine

How scooter startup Bird, the sharing economy’s next big thing, went from $2.5 billion smash hit to roadkill in record time

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January 25, 2024
Photo illustration of a unicorn's horn bursting a bubble.
Magazine

From unicorns to unicorpses: Why billion-dollar startups and even VC firms keep imploding

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January 25, 2024

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