20/20 vision

Of unicorns, storks and embracing the joy of missing out

Susan Long

suelong@sph.com.sg
Published
Jan 12, 2020, 5:00 am SGT

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I hate to drive and used to embrace ride-hailing apps, even contemplating selling my car. No longer.

Now I worry about the Internet economy's preoccupation with chasing unicorns - start-ups valued at over US$1 billion (S$1.35 billion) - like mobile taxi app Uber, pumping them full of borrowed money, enabling them to undercut market rates, monopolise key industries, then jack prices back up.

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