There is more to Venture Capital than the Creation of Unicorns

Julia Thorner
4 min readSep 5, 2018
Illustration by Goran Factory for Fortune

Unicorns. These mythical, unattainable creatures exist in centuries of European folklore and, in recent years, consume the minds of Venture Capitalists.

Start-ups achieve unicorn status when they achieve large valuations thanks to the development of innovative ideas that impact the lives of millions, perhaps billions of people.

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Julia Thorner

Student at the Marshall School of Business — University of Southern California