<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">..and angels!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Marc Weber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marc@webhistory.org" target="_blank">marc@webhistory.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">It’s a magical, magical world. <div><div class="h5"><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 8, 2015, at 10:17, Paul N. Edwards <<a href="mailto:pne@umich.edu" target="_blank">pne@umich.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">long before unicorns, dragons, and trolls — in the late 1950s there were IBM and the Seven Dwarves (Sperry Rand, Control Data Corp. (CDC), RCA, Honeywell, GE, Burroughs, NCR)<div><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 8, 2015, at 13:13 , Marc Weber <<a href="mailto:marc@webhistory.org" target="_blank">marc@webhistory.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">Don’t forget that we have trolls too….</span><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 8, 2015, at 09:39, Henry Lowood <<a href="mailto:lowood@stanford.edu" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">lowood@stanford.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Tom,<br>Quick response from the Valley: From what I have read and heard, the "unicorn company" concept is mostly attributed to TechCrunch. I believe the article you cited was the unveiling of the term, but TechCrunch has put out a series of posts and articles since then.<br>And there are dragons, too:<br><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/14/unicorns-vs-dragons/" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/14/unicorns-vs-dragons/</a><br>This one ends, "All things being equal, I would rather back a dragon than a unicorn." <span> </span><br>Henry<br><br><div>On 4/7/2015 9:23 PM, Thomas Haigh wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear SIGCIS,<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">To raise a question that may or may not turn out to have an explanation within our domain of expertise, I’ve been struck recently by frequent references to “unicorns†in the business press. This crystalized over breakfast last week when I noticed an article “Stockholm: The Unicorn Factory†in my usually reserved Financial Times.<span> </span><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Apparently the consensus definition of a “unicorn†in this context is a newish company worth more than $1 billion. Stockholm has more per capita than anywhere but Silicon Valley. A total output of five sounds more like an atelier than a factory, and unicorns probably come from unicorn farms rather than assembly lines, but that’s not really the point.<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The point is: unicorns are not just vanishingly rare. They’re mythical. Until recently, if someone told me I was pursuing a unicorn I’d have assumed they meant I was wasting my time. So where does the metaphor come from? Something that’s very rare but very valuable might be worth pursuing. Something that is flat-out imaginary seems a bad goal for investment dollars or public policy.<span> </span><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Is this something to do with the popularity of fantasy literature in the tech field? Did it start as some kind of joke and get out of hand? A quick Google search suggests that it was popularized with<span> </span><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/02/welcome-to-the-unicorn-club/" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/02/welcome-to-the-unicorn-club/</a>, which offers no particular justification for the term beyond “to us, it means something extremely rare, and magical.â€<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Tom<span> </span><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div></div><br><fieldset></fieldset><br><pre>_______________________________________________
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