Camels, not unicorns, are the new darlings of Silicon Valley

How being a “unicorn” is no longer enough as a startup — and could hurt you

Sam Westreich, PhD
UX Collective
Published in
6 min readMay 22, 2020

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Camels. Smelly, spitting… and the new image of success, in Silicon Valley? Source.

For most people, the search for unicorns ends around age nine or ten, when we realize that horses with horns on their heads aren’t going to come wandering out of the woods. But for venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs seeking to launch…

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PhD in genetics, bioinformatician, scientist at a Silicon Valley startup. Microbiome is the secret of biology that we’ve overlooked.