
The unicorn valuation gambit
https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/25/the-unicorn-valuation-gambit/
Happy Sunday, fellow startup nerds.
Today we’re talking about risk in the gambling sense of the word. You see, there’s a way for unicorns to avoid painful dilution when they next raise capital, and it appears that a good number of the world’s billion-dollar startups are taking the wager. But new data indicates that the bet some of the most well-financed startups in the world are taking could be more wishful thinking than intelligent gambit.