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The Secrets of Unicorn Companies

8 min readApr 6, 2015

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It is our thesis that Unicorns have worked out how to scale their organization structures in a completely new way. Our name for this is Exponential Organizations.

Who Are the Exponential Organizations?

We found considerable overlap between ExOs and Unicorns. Of the top 100 ExOs, 35 are considered Unicorns.

Employee Size

Geographical breakdown

Age of the Top 100

Building a Unicorn/Exponential Organization

The Key to Unicorns

Old Unicorns Can Learn New Tricks

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Salim Ismail
Salim Ismail

Written by Salim Ismail

Chairman OpenExO; Founding Exec Director of Singularity University; Best-selling Author of Exponential Organizations; Board Member at XPRIZE Foundation

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