There is never a shortage of legends in the business world. Today, when everyone shouts about the difficulty of starting a business and the nine deaths of entrepreneurship, there are still enterprises that are born, develop and then grow, and then step out of the country. From the perspective of economic development, the development of enterprises has promoted the development of the national economy to a certain extent, and is also the main source of government revenue in various countries in the world.
If the perspective is placed on a global scale, the competition between enterprises, especially large enterprises, reflects the competition of the country's comprehensive strength from the side. We all know that the list of the world's top 500 companies released by Fortune magazine is a relatively authoritative and scientific ranking, from which everyone can spy on the status of world-class companies. However, as a reserve force for enterprise development, unicorn enterprises have actually attracted considerable attention.
What is a unicorn business? In simple terms, those companies that are in an emerging field, although young but develop faster, the reason why they are young is because unicorn companies generally refer to companies that have been established for less than 10 years, but they are developing rapidly, and the market gives a valuation of more than $1 billion or even more than $10 billion of unlisted companies.
As a big guy in an emerging industry, unicorn enterprises are often regarded as leading enterprises for future development, and the number of leading unicorn enterprises in a subdivision field can be used as a vane for the development of emerging industries in a country, and can also reflect the strength of the overall innovation ability of a country or region.
According to the "2021 Global Unicorn List" released by the Hurun Research Institute, last year a total of 1058 companies were listed, these 1058 unicorn companies were distributed in 221 cities in 42 countries around the world, the United States has sat on 487 unicorn companies ranked first in the list, and China is closely followed, there are 301 unicorn companies on the list, ranking third is India's 54.
According to the above data, it can be deduced that the proportion of unicorn companies in China and the United States in the global total has reached 74%, and other countries have a total of only 26%, and surprisingly, there are only 6 and 10 unicorn companies in the developed countries of Japan and South Korea, respectively, while Italy does not even have a unicorn company, and it is the only country in the top ten countries in GDP that does not have a unicorn enterprise.
The largest number of unicorn companies is the United States, in the top ten of the list, American companies occupy four seats, of which Musk's Space X ranks third after Ant Group, with a valuation of up to 640 billion yuan, is the largest unicorn company among American companies, and is known for launching launch vehicles and spaceship satellites.
So, which companies in China have entered the top ten? ByteDance, Cainiao Network and Ant Group are all on the list, Cainiao Network ranks ninth, Ant Group ranks second, and the first place is ByteDance, which has been on fire in recent years. After the leaderboard came out, many people were surprised, and some netizens joked, "I know that douyin is fire, I don't know that douyin is so hot."
ByteDance at the top of the list believes that everyone is no stranger, and ByteDance can surpass Ant Group and Space X, which is both unexpected and reasonable. ByteDance relies on products such as Douyin short videos and today's headlines, successfully sweeping the domestic and foreign markets, in foreign countries, Douyin overseas version of TikTok has a great trend to catch up with Facebook and Instagram, ByteDance's latest valuation has reached 420 billion US dollars, about 2668 billion yuan, nearly 200 billion US dollars more than the second Ant Group.
In addition, there are many people's eyes focused on the Cainiao network, as a logistics company, Cainiao network is an important layout of Ali's new retail integration e-commerce model, responsible for opening up the intermediate links of offline resources and consumers, a logistics company can rank ninth in the unicorn rankings, which is already a very bright achievement.
Judging from this year's list, China has added 93 new unicorn companies, of which the medical and health field and the enterprise service field have the largest number. In addition, of all these unicorn companies, 50 are directly incubated by the parent company, of which 49 are from China. It can be seen that China's large enterprises have a relatively strong incubation strength.
In addition to the large enterprises we are familiar with, there are also new growth companies to join the ranks of unicorns, and in December last year alone, 7 companies in China completed financing to become unicorn companies, with a total valuation of about 9.6 billion US dollars. It can be seen that China's enterprises are gradually growing, and I believe that with the development of our country's economy, more and more enterprises in China will go to the world.