Robinson: The number of private unicorns doubled in two years
Elliott Robinson · The State of the Cloud: 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners | SaaStr Software Community · Mar 14, 2021 · at 22:23
Elliott Robinson of Bessemer Venture Partners discusses the rapid rate of unicorn creation in the private markets up to early 2021.
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“But what's crazy to us is that the number of private unicorns has actually doubled, ah, in the past two years.”
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