The Earnicorns highlights profitable startups in a unicorn-dominated world

Startups, unicorns included, have been about adventure (misadventure too), independence (at least from the outside), pitches (and rounds of fund-raising in dollars

The Earnicorns: Stories of rare profitable unicorns

Author: Dhruv Nath

Publisher: Penguin Business

Pages: 303

Price: Rs 499 

As 2024 draws to a close, with the number of newly minted unicorns (startups valued at $1 billion or above) in the year at only four till now, here’s a book on earnicorns. Well, if unicorns are getting rare, earnicorns are even more so. The term refers to profitable unicorns — almost an oxymoron. In the world of startups, that mostly pride themselves for fund-raising from marquee global investors at dizzying valuations irrespective of their own bottom line, profitability is almost a bad word.

 

Startups, unicorns