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Hey everybody, welcome back to this week and

Startups, it's your boy, J-Cow, hosting you here during the summer of the

pandemic in 2020, hoping you and your family are okay and that you're

figuring out if you've got kids school for the new year and I hope work is going well and that we're going to get through this soon. I am an optimist I think we will.

And getting down to business we had a wonderful series in the last year called The Next unicorns or as we call it internally

soonicorns what's a unicorn? Unicorns are companies that get valued at a

billion dollars or more in Silicon Valley the valuation of the company not the

revenue but the valuation is usually

based on some large amount of revenue and some sustainability. And it's arbitrary, sure, but it's important

because it means a company's getting to scale and that they have a chance of maybe going public or changing the world in some deep and meaningful way and it's kind of fun to see if we will be able to predict that these are in fact

unicorns we'll look at the first 10 we did and we'll see what percentage we hit

we'll look at this 10 we'll see what percentage we hit that'll be a really

interesting we've asked a lot of you to tell us which companies you think are breaking out

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