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Town’s Four-Month Unicorn Valuation Outpaces the Tools Built to Check It
Four months after it launched, the AI assistant startup Town crossed the billion-dollar threshold that venture investors use to mark a unicorn. Most companies spend years proving they deserve that number; Town did it in about the time it takes to renew a lease. The obvious read is that artificial intelligence has finally compressed the…

The Companies That Can Say What They Are
The clearest signal that a company is in trouble is not falling revenue and not a bad quarter. It is the moment its founders can no longer tell you, in one flat sentence, what the business does. They will tell you what they believe. They will tell you what they are passionate about. They will…