Professor at Stanford | Bestselling Author | Innovation | Venture Capital & Private Equity
Unicorns: Where to Find Them? We have been keeping track of VC-backed unicorns at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Venture Capital Initiative since 2015. The cartogram shows the weighted-average location of companies at the time they attained unicorn status (the area of each state is in proportion to the number of unicorns headquartered in it). This is the first in the series of unicorn posts. #venturecapital #startups #unicorns #unicornstartup #innovation
Looks a little bit like a bubble ))
Interesting research, Professor Ilya Strebulaev. Hope you've been well!
Awesome map Professor! Does the team have in scope an analysis on Unicorn's value cap evolution once this status is reached? What happens to the "promised" explosive growth after hitting 🦄? Ilya Strebulaev
Would be great to have some transparency on how the valuations are determined. It's reasonable to question the assumptions behind any claim like this.
California creates unicorns, and Russia is the birthplace of elephants.
Possible to share the excel showing yoy change across states?
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing !!
So interesting, tks for sharing! Those states with the letters but no number has some?
Quant, Investor, neo-industrialist.
4yLook at that CA bubble. This map is going to look stunningly different in 5 years