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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
unquenchable appetite for growth and capital. You might remember this scene from 2010’s The Social Network: Movie clip That was a fictionalized telling of Facebook’s rise, but those numbers are real. Silicon Valley produced 32 unicorns in... View Details
- 25 Mar 2019
- News
Rent The Runway Joins the Unicorn Club
Photo via Forbes, courtesy of Rent the Runway Photo via Forbes, courtesy of Rent the Runway Rent the Runway’s latest fundraising round—a $125 million investment led by Bain Capital Ventures and Franklin Templeton Investments—has pushed the company’s valuation to $1... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
Manny Medina (MBA 2003) didn’t set out to found Outreach, the Seattle-based sales-engagement unicorn. He never expected to become an entrepreneur. When he quit a frustrating role in business development at Microsoft in 2011, he didn’t have a startup idea—and he wasn’t... View Details
- 20 Feb 2020
- News
WeWork: How the ultimate unicorn lost its billions
- 27 Sep 2019
- News
WeWork Should Never Have Been a Unicorn
- 31 May 2018
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Careem: Riding the First Unicorn in the Middle East
- 16 Oct 2020
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Startups, It’s Time to Think Like Camels — Not Unicorns
- 31 Oct 2022
- Podcast
How Mudassir Sheikha’s Rideshare Company Careem Became a Unicorn in the Middle East
A near-death experience led Mudassir Sheikha and his business partner to a deep sense of purpose in creating the rideshare company Careem. They wanted to make an impact – and did so big-time. Sheikha says that purpose is Careem’s “superpower,” bringing energy, focus... View Details
- 13 Jan 2017
- News
Fidelity funds high on hot startups
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
a fintech unicorn that spans multiple verticals. After another sales record during the 2016 Global Shopping Festival with Alibaba, Ant Financial’s chief strategy officer contemplates the various opportunities and challenges associated... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
supported more than 3,700 ventures with founders from some 150 countries who have raised over $5 billion in capital. While six of the companies have achieved unicorn status, that is not the only measure of success, as Harvard Innovation... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Out of the Valley
Episode 1: The Camel and the Unicorn Why Silicon Valley is at risk of losing it startup dominance—and what that could mean for the future of innovation. Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA 2011) Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA 2011) Episode 2: A Creator in the... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
cofounded InMobi, a mobile-first advertising platform that achieved unicorn status in 2011—the first consumer technology company fully conceived and executed in India to do so. In this episode of Skydeck, Associate Editor Julia Hanna... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
medicine? “Make sure you really want to do it. Medicine is tremendously rewarding, but the path is a long one, and there are a lot of other ways to make a meaningful contribution in health care.” What’s the story behind your Twitter handle besides the fact, of course,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
Ahmed (AB 2012) and his team designed WHOOP, a wearable fitness strap that collects physiological data to help athletes, their coaches, and trainers analyze strain, recovery, and sleep. The startup, one of the first unicorns to come out... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
brands and 1,200 employees, spread across four countries. Foodology delivers 200,000 orders a month through apps such as Uber Eats and the Latin American unicorn Rappi, and it has fulfilled more than 2 million orders since launch.... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
granted. Morrell: Alex Lazarow says this focus on deep impact differentiates frontier startups from their California counterparts. Lazarow: In Silicon Valley, less than 20% of unicorns are in industries like financial services, health... View Details