The word ‘unicorn’ is by no stretch a new word neither was it coined by tech companies. However, the first person to use the word to describe a startup company valued at over $1 billion was Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures, a seed-stage fund that backs entrepreneurs.
The use of ‘unicorn
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