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We are back with yet another weekly roundup on what is buzzing on the bird app!

🌎US is still the world leader in the number of newly minted Unicorns in the pandemic era

Elad Gil @eladgil

Globally, Silicon Valley added the most unicorns (69 out of 227) with NY in 2nd place and LA and London tied for 3rd. NY seems to have its own breakout cluster momentum now

While China has stagnated - Elad* thinks it might be because of tighter data control by the government in reporting recent fundraiser. *Elad is a former Google PM turned VC. Read his detailed blog on the same.

🇺🇸An Intern @ HBO Max messed up, but Twitter was surprisingly warm

HBOMaxHelp @HBOMaxHelp

We mistakenly sent out an empty test email to a portion of our HBO Max mailing list this evening. We apologize for the inconvenience, and as the jokes pile in, yes, it was the intern. No, really. And we’re helping them through it. ❤️

Check the replies, which features lead Silicon Valley Engineering Heads recalling their “been there done that” mistakes as an intern!

🧶The story of Thyrocare

Azhar Jafri @zhr_jafri

In 1982, A Velumani was asked in an interview at Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) : "Where is Thyroid in the body" ? He couldn't answer. But 20 years down the line, he was running world's largest Thyroid testing company. A thread on the inspiring story of Thyrocare 1/

🇮🇳 KKR buys Vini Cosmetics, Sequoia makes 4x

Abhay Pandey @Abhay__Pandey

A 10 year old startup, Vini Cosmetics, sold majority control at a valuation of $1.2B. Founders owned 62% stake till this sale. Fantastic example of raising limited amount of capital and stewarding it well. Congratulations Darshan and Deepam Patel and @Sequoia_India

Vini Cosmetics Co Founder Darshan Patel also co founded Paras Pharma which made the very popular ‘Moov’ (was then sold to British Giant Reckitt Benkiser - Sequoia was involved in this deal as well). Abhay is ex-Sequoia who was involved in sourcing this deal.

✨Gyaan for the week

Ryan Petersen @typesfast

Ryan is the Co-Founder/CEO of Flexport - one of the biggest logistics startup in the world. This graph-matrix is from the book “5 Basic Laws of Human Stupidity" by Carlo Cipolla.

That’s all for this week! Stay tuned for next week’s edition meanwhile, tell your friends and drop a sub!

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