【Day 71】外刊27

2020-10-27 15:27:1100:58 78

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For our overhyped, overvalued tech startups, soon the reckoning will come
对于炒作过度、过于高估的科技初创公司来说，清算很快就会到来

In November 2013, venture capitalist Aileen Lee published an article coining the term “unicorn” to describe a startup that’s less than a decade old and worth at least $1bn. She chose the word carefully, to convey a mix of rarity and magic power. What Lee seemingly didn’t anticipate was that just a few years later it would have become a misnomer: these days there’s nothing rare about unicorns.

2013年11月，风险投资家艾琳·李（Aileen Lee）发表文章，首创“独角兽”一词来描述成立不到十年、市值超过10亿美元的初创企业。她谨慎地选用了这个词，来同时表达稀有和“魔力”。但李似乎没有预料到，仅仅几年后，“独角兽”就变成了一个极其不当的误称：现在独角兽已经一点都不罕见了。