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On the Road to Recap:

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One key to this population growth has been the remarkable ease of the Unicorn fundraising process: Pick a new valuation well above your last one, put together a presentation deck, solicit offers, and watch the hundreds of million of dollars flow into your bank account. The same thing happened to many Internet stocks.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

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Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. The punchline of Chris’ argument is in the highlighted box, where he argues Procore is better off (having done an IPO and “as a result” of choosing the IPO), because Procore ended up with a valuation the day after the IPO of 20.5X

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