Fallen Unicorns: Startup Billionaires Nearly $100 Billion Poorer Than A Year Ago | Forbes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.พ. 2023
- Last January, credit card startup Brex raised $300 million from a string of A-list investors, nearly doubling the company’s valuation to $12.3 billion and making its Brazilian cofounders- 26-year-old Pedro Franceschi and 27-year-old Henrique Dubugras-the world’s youngest self-made billionaires.
It’s certainly far too early to write-off the long-term success story that could be Brex. But a year later, Forbes estimates the company’s value has fallen to $6.4 billion-nearly 50% less than 12 months ago. Francheshi and Dubugras, meanwhile, are no longer billionaires-worth an estimated $900 million apiece, down from $1.5 billion.
They are in good company. In March 2022, near the peak of the startup funding frenzy, 44 founders of unicorns-private companies valued at over $1 billion-were worth a total of $190 billion, according to Forbes’ estimates. A year later, with crypto tumbling and private markets going the way of their tanking public counterparts, Forbes-in consultation with prominent VCs, investors and data providers-has revalued the world’s billionaire-backed unicorns. The results are stark: Half the wealth of the billionaires behind unicorns has been wiped out, leaving this elite group of startup visionaries $96 billion poorer than they were a year ago. Twelve of them are no longer billionaires. And that excludes a dozen Chinese unicorn founders who face their own unique set of issues (political and otherwise).
Some unicorns have already cut their own valuations. Online payments startup Checkout.com proactively slashed its internal mark to $11 billion in December, after investors valued the company at $40 billion in January 2022. That knocked down the fortune of its Swiss founder and CEO Guillaume Pousaz, briefly Europe’s richest tech entrepreneur, to $7.2 billion from $23 billion.
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What would’ve been better for this video than talking through the methodology of the drop in valuation would’ve been the reason behind the drop. Understanding the business models, consumer sentiment and industries would’ve made more sense to find out which kind of unicorns, business models and in which industries, are doing better and why. Would encourage Forbes to research that and produce a more meaningful video the next time on this topic, as a sequel possibly.
It's mostly dictated by the Federal Funds Rate. Corporate debt yields the same yield as T-bills plus the default risk. Growth stocks yield the same as debt plus the risk premium. Ergo, when the T-bill yield goes to zero, people buy stocks with lottery like payoffs because at least they offer some return. When T-bills give good yields no one will touch stocks that aren't already making money
Wrong, it’s dictated by the completely improper and bogus post money valuations used by VCs, the tech and financial press, data analytics firms and others. It’s a fraud and all 135 companies evaluated in the Stanford Study were over valued, 100%! I explain this fraud very clearly in my podcast, Distilling Venture Capital. The so-called $1B companies are, in fact, not $1B firms. The whole thing is a farce
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What was the total value of unicorns them and now?
Did stripes, instacart devalue too?
So many of these companies don't make any sense but it doesn't seem to matter to VCs at all.
So, people lost their money to small under 30 kids who are now living a life of glamour under the coverage of their lawyers.
Fake 🤥 valuation
When u want a loan or an investment on a legitimate business that's already making money and has a good P&L projections banka and investors are reluctant and kept wanting more due diligence. But when it comes to these companies with no real income Billionaires and Big Investment companies rush in 😂😂😂😁😁😁😀😭😭😭
Funny money, funny values.
Let’s be honest most of these companies were severely overvalued and the only reason they reached such valuations was mostly because there was economic growth going on and Silicon Valley hype.
economic growth, but also cheap money. now that interest rates are higher, the free money tap has dried up.
Not even that, most of these companies grow based on arbitrary valuations and make little if any money.
@@spector3881 Oh yes, let it stay this way.
They will be fine. They have the type of tenacity to pick themselves back up again.
Just as I've predicted
Liar
@@samsonsoturian6013 not really. So many of these unicorn companies are completely overvalued.
@@tristanward9937 I didn't say it wasn't predictable, I say he is lying when he says he predicted it
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0:21 "Poorer" is definitely a relative term.
These are fake rich. Their "wealth" is due to some arbitrary valuation the bank gave when they funded them. Their actual wealth the sallary and perks the bank provides while they try to get the ball rolling.
Easy come Easy go. This unicorn term itself is a mirage like the wealth it refers to- calculations wrongly performed and ascribed to . Should definitely be taken with a huge dose of salt .
So redistribution. Great!
Further, FTX and others before, which I identify in my podcasts, reveal that VCs do little to zero diligence on these companies and are merely momentum investors. That includes those VCs considered the most pedigreed in Sil Valley. It’s a circus and a joke
But i don't know.... lol
Businesses built on jobs that do less physical work, only five people make money everyone else poor, delivering grocery's in the freezing cold on a bicycle.
In russia?
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So the money went back to the economy rather than staying in the wallets of the rich. Great! No problem then!
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