Decacorn
topic on 5 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
the Neon Show 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 
the a16z Podcast 
All-In 
20VC
8 statements about Decacorn, every show
Sacks: Data shows centicorns have a 31% chance of reaching $1T market cap
“The odds of a unicorn getting to decacorn was eight percent. The odds of a decacorn getting to a cenacorn was about double that. 13%. And then the odds of it going from cenacorn to a trillion dollar market cap was 31%.”
Garg: More decacorns will be created in next decade than prior decade
“I think many more Decacorns will get created over the next decade than over the last decade.”
Casado: The number of decacorns has increased tenfold over ten years
“The amount of, like, Decacorns is order, probably an order of magnitude more than what it was 10 years ago.”
Lemkin: Decacorns will bifurcate SaaS and distort hiring expectations
“Now we're going to live in this bifurcated world where there's going to be whispers of folks working at Decacorns, and Decacorns, there'll be more snowflakes, and there'll be more ideas, and it's going to put a lot of pressure on the rest of us, because people…”
Lemkin: Post-seed VC is permanently hunting for decacorns, not unicorns
“What I think has changed permanently Permanently since 2021 is venture post seed is perpetually going to be sourcing, searching for decacorns.”
Pepper: Growth VCs Mistakenly Assumed Every Startup Could Become a Decacorn
“The big mistake that the growth stage investors made over the last couple of years pivoting off of what you just said was not that we thought everything could be a unicorn. It's that we thought everything could be a Decacorn. I think that this environment is p…”
Bansal: The decacorn is the new unicorn benchmark
“The Decacorn is the new unicorn now, like, you know, right now billion dollar was a special part. And now it's like, you know, it's, you gotta be ten billion dollars to be really special over the company these days.”