While I wasn’t actually at his talk, Sanwal posted his presentation on CB Insights recently, and it highlights a lot of really helpful information for startups looking for a billion-dollar exit. For someone who runs a company focused on providing insights on the startup industry, the data he presented was fascinating and looked at things like trends in popular sentiment to venture capital flow. From the data he presented, he notes that enterprise startups trumps consumer startups in the number of overall exits, but consumer startups beat out enterprise startups when it comes to overall value (how much those exists are worth in real dollars). Most important to note: of all exits, 1.04 percent fall in the billion-dollar startup club, while 72 percent of exists were less than $200 million. Check out the Sanwal’s entire presentation on “Birthing a Unicorn is Hard” below:
