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Gabriel Lewis
The Speed of a Unicorn — See how long it took for startups to become unicorns 🦄
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Unicorns are rare beasts of the business world, startup companies that are valued at $1B or more. Once considered the stuff of myth, there are now over 180. See how quickly the world's most successful startups got their billion-dollar valuations.

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Jeff Needles
This is an amazing visualization. It takes some very interesting data and presents it in an even more interesting, digestible and understandable way. 💯💯💯💯
Ben Travis
Really interesting to note the increase in companies listed by year, though I'm sure at least a few are missing from the list. Top cities would also be a neat touch. Nice job!
Paul Hart
It's kinda stupid. Enjoyably stupid. Ahhh Unicorn money.
Ben Tossell
feels really weird reading the graphs the other way around 🙃
Francis Perron
Hope I will be in this list one day. With an average of 4 years for marketplace, I'll work hard and see... 🍀🙏
Ben Tossell
@francisperron be the exception... I'll give you 4 months 😉
Frederik Trovatten
This is really neat! Thanks!
Gabriel Reynard
Love this! It's good for studying the companies and the markets around the world. Cool to see how Asia is becoming faster and faster on building Unicorns. Congrats!
Michael Gugel
Well that's pretty darn handy.
Robert Alexander
Very cool. Something that would be nice dissecting is if/how the market evaluation really ties back to value. In other terms is the evaluation a result of a financial or a tangible asset?