This week on Beers, Blokes and Business we had a chat about the 39 billion dollar tech companies which have been founded since 2013. What made them successful and what are the common characteristics? Sound interesting? Have a listen below:

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What will you learn from this podcast?

• What are business Unicorns?
• Are all the founders 20 year old Stanford dropouts?
• These 39 companies aren’t all consumer facing businesses – what other business models are successful?
• Despite what the media would have us think, most of these companies were not overnight success stories
• The blokes also introduce an “interesting” new #BBB drinking game
• And find out what we think the next major wave of technology innovation will be.

Links from the podcast

• A big thanks to the Complete Basket Case for providing this week’s beer!
• The Techcrunch article we kept banging on about was: Welcome to the Unicorn Club
  
• And another great article on Unicorns
• Fred Destin’s article on the valuation of Snapchat despite no revenues (edited: Thanks for comment Fred)
• An article on Yahoo!’s $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr
• Everpix raised $2.3 million, and then they were crunched
• Yammer is the business David Sacks sold to Microsoft for $1.2 billion and he just tweeted about Unicorns.

Useful terminology for startup outcomes: “Unicorn” = $1B+ company “Decicorn” = $10B+ company “Centicorn” = $100B+ company (Via @briansin)

— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) December 7, 2013

• Jeff Bezos promises Amazon will soon be delivering packages using drones and Josh Rowe was quick on the Tweet

Amazing -> Delivery drones are coming: Jeff Bezos previews half-hour shipping from Amazon | The Verge http://t.co/7qzRwX45Ww #eCommerce

— Josh Rowe (@joshrowe) December 2, 2013

Reading List:

• The Age of Context by by Robert Scoble

On this BBB podcast were:

• @seancallanan from Sports Geek
• @jimboot from stewartmedia.biz
• @stevevallas from The Honey Bar
• @joshrowe from JoshRowe.com
• @lukemccormack from Flippa

The tasty beverage inhaled by the blokes in this podcast was Pale Ale from 4 Pines Brewing Company (@4pinesbeer).

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Jim showing the blokes how to wear a shirt…

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