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Alexandre Lazarow
Alexandre Lazarow

Apr 27, 2020

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The New Hot Startups Will Be Camels, Not Unicorns

We’re entering the desert. Which would you rather be?

Even before the coronavirus shocked markets, the sheen was starting to fade from Silicon Valley’s obsession with finding, funding, and building the next unicorn — the valley’s nickname for startups valued at over a billion dollars. The collapse of companies with runaway valuations like…

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Alexandre Lazarow

Alexandre Lazarow

Global #VentureCapital @Cathayinnov, previously @OmidyarNetwork; author of Out-Innovate (HBR Press); professor @MIIS; outdoor enthusiast; raised on the Cdn

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