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...This week, the value of his personal stake in the company he founded nine years ago rose above $10bn for the first time, vaulting him into the rarefied ranks of Silicon Valley’s deca-billionaires....
...The first of the deca-unicorns, its valuation broke the $10bn barrier in early 2014....
...The financing signalled the start of a boom in private tech financing that has since seen the emergence of nearly 20 “deca-unicorns”, as companies chose to tap a wave of private capital rather than take...
...A funding round at the start of 2014 marked it out as the first of the “deca-unicorns”, or private tech companies worth at least $10bn....
...Snap’s performance bodes well for other unicorns planning to make their way to Wall Street, but so far investors expect this year’s deals will be primarily smaller unicorns and not necessarily the “deca-corns...
...It will be the first of a new generation of so-called deca-unicorns — private technology start-ups with valuations above $10bn — to test the public markets....
...Dropbox attracted a $10bn valuation in early 2014, making it one of Silicon Valley’s first “deca-unicorns” — a reference to start-ups claiming valuations of more than $1bn....
...Edie Weiner, of the New York company Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc, a futures consultancy founded in 1977, claims her clients first heard the words “internet” and “Taliban” from her....
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