Tagged: unicorn

September 22, 2015 @ 1:12 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Former UK head of Google, Dan Cobley, sees a unicorn–a $1.5 billion-turnover success story–in his co-founded startup SalaryFinance, for which he left Google last year. According to Business Insider, Cobley said that SalaryFinance would “be talked about in some of the same sentences as unicorn businesses over… Read More

August 28, 2015 @ 8:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Aileen Lee, founder of VC firm Cowboy Ventures, is credited with coining the term “Unicorn” regarding startups with a $1 billion valuation (or more). According to NYTimes.com, she tried using several other terms like “Home Run” or “MegaHit” but those sounded too plebian. When the… Read More