Shatter the Myths: The Surprising Truths Behind Building a Billion-Dollar Startup
5 min read3 days ago
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…
