Back in the Unicorn Club with Cowboy Ventures’ Aileen Lee

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🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Today on Equity, we invited Cowboy Ventrues’ Aileen Lee to chat through her massive new entry concerning the unicorn world. If you didn’t know, Lee initially coined the term “unicorn” in a TechCrunch article back in 2013. Together, Alex, Mary Ann and Aileen are diving deep into how the concept has evolved over the last 10 years, where unicorns are based today, why seed rounds are getting bigger, and what we can expect from US unicorns in the decade to come.

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0:16.1	Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. My name is Alex and
0:20.0	this is our interview show where we sit down with a guest, think about their work, and then unpack the rest.
0:25.6	But before we do introduce our guest, I have to say I have brought along my dear friend,
0:29.2	Marianne Asafeto. Marianne, hi, how are you and why is it not Freddie yet?
0:33.8	I'm doing great and super excited to be here.
0:36.2	How are you?
0:37.2	I'm hanging in there.
0:38.2	It's 21 degrees Fahrenheit here, which means that I have turned into a human popsicle, but the good
0:42.2	news is that we have a podcast to keep us warm and fun people to talk to.
0:45.4	Well, I am super excited to be joining you and talking to Aileen. I can't wait.
0:51.4	Unicorn is just this term that we've all been saying for years and years and just to get to talk about
0:57.0	how it came about, how it's evolved, what's ahead, I'm excited.
1:00.8	And you just let the cat out of the bag.
1:02.4	We do have Aileen Lee from Cowboy Adventures today.
1:06.0	She is a managing partner and before she did 10 years of cowboy, she was at Kleiner- Brookings for 12 for 13 years.
1:12.0	Aileen, welcome to the show.
1:13.4	Oh, thank you.
1:14.1	I'm super excited to be here.
1:15.5	So first of all, you were up late
1:17.1	finishing this massive post that just went up on Tech Runge today.
1:20.5	I'm curious just because I'm a writer,
1:22.4	when did the process of putting it together start and when
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