The unicorn: Tech’s dumbest trend may have finally died in 2016

ANALYSIS: Perhaps no word could make me cringe more in recent years than the one that had come to define this recent period of startup euphoria: Unicorn.
The term may have been briefly useful, back when one or two private companies exceeded $1 billion in valuation on paper a few years ago. But, as with so many things in the tech world, the industry has a way of taking a moderately interesting concept and running completely amok with it.
When it seems every startup is a unicorn (or at least