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Ten years ago, Cowboy Ventures introduced the term “unicorn” to describe U.S.-based startups valued at over $1 billion. At the time, only 39 companies—a mere 0.07% of venture-backed startups—had reached this valuation, making the unicorn a near-mythical achievement. Last month, Cowboy updated their landmark report, providing a chance for readers to reassess what a $1 billion valuation means today.
$100M in ARR Is the Best North Star for Startup Success. Here's How Founders Can Get There. - Foundation Capital
foundationcapital.com
In this postmodern struggle, objective truth is no longer an advantage. More often than not, truth proves inconvenient in the effort to make someone, including yourself, believe, using emotion instead of evidence.
Where Is My Flying Car?
J. Storrs Hall
With this shift, our sense of self changed too. Deleuze compared the self of the disciplinary society to a mole, which burrows in and then makes itself comfortable within the bounds of the enclosures to which it is subjected. But in a control society, the self is more like a snake, an undulating project moving from one state to another, never quite at rest, always getting ready to shed its skin at the next stage of self-becoming.
The New Control Society
thenewatlantis.com
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