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by MicroBerto 3777 days ago
The unicorn valuation bubble seems to be cracking, sure, but what does that mean for the average tech employee? Average citizen?

I'm concerned but still not convinced this will shock the rest of the economy, at least not all on its own.

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It's almost entirely irrelevant to the rest of the economy. That is not an exaggeration.

During the dotcom bubble crash, Cisco all by itself destroyed more market cap from top to bottom than the entire unicorn bubble is worth combined (and that's before inflation adjusting for 15 years).

This current tiny mess? It's hardly even a single line sideshow to the rest of the US or global economy, what's going on in China, the commodity markets, negative interest rates in Europe or Japan, etc. A ~1% value drop in just the US residential housing market is worth as much as every unicorn combined.