Shatter the Myths: The Surprising Truths Behind Building a Billion-Dollar Startup

For years, we’ve been fed the same old story about what it takes to build a billion-dollar startup. We’ve been told that you need to be an Ivy League dropout like Mark Zuckerberg or have a technical visionary as your co-founder, like Apple did. But the data doesn’t lie — over 30,000 data points collected since 2017 have shown us that many of these assumptions are just myths.

In fact, there were more founders with PhDs than dropouts in successful unicorns, and only 15% of unicorns participated in an accelerator program. The most successful billion-dollar projects weren’t always the first ones to market — many of them were built on ideas that had failed in the past.

So, what does it really take to build a successful unicorn? In his book, Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups, Ali Tamaseb debunks many of the common myths surrounding these ventures.”

Let’s explore the surprising truths behind the myths of billion-dollar startups from this book.

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