Even VC’s are lamenting that the pursuit of Unicorns is screwing up Entrepreneurs.
That must mean it has gone too far!
Read two recent great essays about the problems with our unicorn mania. Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures says it all in Why-i-fucking-hate-unicorns-and-the-culture-they-breed/ as did Michael Eisenberg of Aleph who states succinctly it’s tearing the heart out of entrepreneurship.
The good one’s may be upright but in this mania some of many entrepreneurs will become victims of predators. See Entrepreneurs-are-you-marrying-a-partner-or-a-rapist