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So, Business Success. How do we define success? Size? Profits? Innovation? Speed of Growth? SDG Performance? Yes, to all of these, I think. This month we’ll look at all types of Business Success.
Unicorns
- Article and Video. Unicorns certainly qualify as Success: startups / private companies with a valuation of at least $1Billion. They are successful by any measure. Mostly, as you might expect, companies that rocket to such huge success are technology companies.
- Article. Top 8 Japanese Unicorns. Not just digital tech – environmental tech. too!
- Article. Top 20 Japanese Start-Ups. Future Unicorns?
- Article. Japan Wants 100 Unicorns by 2027.
Strange Events
- Article. OpenAI / ChatGPT: A “Dangerous” AI Unicorn. Surely a Unicorn, described this week as “a Dangerous Race Representing A Risk to Society” by its creator Elon Musk and other tech leaders, qualifies as a Strange Event, by any measure.
- Article: ChatGPT Now Part Of Microsoft 365. Again, all the buzz is about the risks and dangers,
- Article: Yes, OpenAI/ChatGPT Is A Unicorn. Surprise surprise. It’s #10 in the world!
More Strangeness…The Other Unicorn Definition: “The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn”.