What backgrounds do unicorn ($1B+ valuation) startup founders have?
By the numbers, the top 3 most common…
Employers are: Google, Microsoft, Stanford University.
Universities are: Stanford, MiT, Harvard.
States are: California, New York, Masachusetts.
Source: Ilya Strebulaev, professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Posted by DoubleSkew
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i’d be interested in seeing family net worth of these founders prior to their company’s 1b valuation.
Clicked on this because I thought it would be desktop backgrounds
Unicorn founders of unicorns that made unicorns using unicorns
What do the numbers in the first graphic even mean?
Think we need a new name, unicorn is kinda dumb when there are 1000 of them.
While the data is very interesting, that first picture especially is a terrible visualization. Circles to represent integer values? Essentially completely devoid of useful labels?
What are we doing here. Hell, I could do a better job than this.