Sunday, May 31, 2015
Unicorn CEOs Spout Off on the Dangers of Billion-Dollar Valuations (Video)
From StrictlyVC: Yesterday, during the last day of the Code Conference, three CEOs of so-called "unicorns" -- Slack’s Stewart Butterfield, Houzz’s Adi Tatarko and Stripe’s Patrick Collison -- spoke candidly about how rich valuations are impacting their respective startups. “One is the impact it has on motivation,” said Butterfield, whose business messaging service is valued at $2.8 billion. “The bigger problem for us is avoiding the feeling of okay, we’ve done it.”
Read more in Re/Code.
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