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Bos2015 - We Need to Talk About Unicorns. Values > Valuations.

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Business of Software Conference
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Some opening thoughts on why Unicorns are a terrible thing to aspire to be. Let's wait for the bubble to pop and just get on with building great software.

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Bos2015 - We Need to Talk About Unicorns. Values > Valuations.