With the development of the economy, the continuous improvement of innovation ability, the development and strength of enterprises have become an important symbol of each country, each of the top 500 enterprises is indispensable, the mainland in the fiercely competitive environment, but also in a continuous effort, showing different styles, the proportion of top 500 enterprises is also increasing, especially in the Internet industry, today's development momentum can be described as in full swing, BAT can be described as three-legged.
Today's unicorn enterprises have become the main force in the field of innovation economy with excellent innovation ability, short growth cycle, and explosive growth, which is called the vane for measuring the innovation ability of the economy and the development of the new economy. So who is the world's largest unicorn? As can be seen from the latest unicorn list, the first place is no longer Ant Group, the listing was not successfully pushed to the second place with a market value of 1,000 billion, the space company Spacex, the world's richest man Musk, ranked third with a market value of 100 billion US dollars, and the first place is a new face, it is Tiktok and Douyin parent company ByteDance, with a market value of 2,250 billion yuan, and the company was established less than ten years ago, and its today's headlines, vibrato, etc. have been familiar to everyone, and even become a part of life.
2021 ByteDance's revenue is 58 billion US dollars, and the momentum is still developing, according to relevant information, if ByteDance is listed, The Internet giant Ali and Tencent will be compared, the most worth mentioning is that this is the most successful Chinese Internet company in history, which is also the first time it has become the world's largest official unicorn enterprise, and so on, ByteDance's founder Zhang Yiming may become the new richest man? Could ByteDance become an industry giant? So how did this dark horse of the Internet do it?
Unicorn businesses are different
As the saying goes, long winds and waves will sometimes hang directly on the clouds and sails to the sea. The development of the enterprise is not smooth, can have a certain achievement far ahead need to continue to work hard to have results, some enterprises need more than ten years, some enterprises need decades, and unicorn enterprises established for no more than 10 years, the market value can exceed 1 billion US dollars, and even some more than 10 billion US dollars, and still unlisted companies, unicorns can be described as the "fragrant food" in the enterprise. In 2014, there were only 19 unicorns on the mainland, and in 2020, it grew to 266, becoming the country with the largest number of unicorn companies in the world.
"2021 Global Unicorn List" list of unicorn companies a total of 1058, equivalent to more than twice as much as in 2020, only 472 in 2020, an increase of 80% year-on-year, the total value of these enterprises reached 23.7 trillion yuan, equivalent to the world's fourth largest economy, the distribution is also quite extensive, involving 221 cities in 42 countries, of which the largest proportion is China and the United States, accounting for 74%, of which the United States with the number of 487 enterprises ranked first in the world, an increase of 254 year-on-year, China is close behind with 301, an increase of 74 year-on-year, India ranks third with 54, while the developed countries South Korea has only 10, Japan has only 6, and even some countries do not have.
It is understood that the average age of these unicorn companies is eight years, that is to say, the establishment time is about 2013, and the market value in a relatively short period of time is more than 1 billion US dollars, and the development speed is quite fast. In addition, from the perspective of the industry, the financial field is far ahead, the number of enterprises reached 139, the number of enterprises in the software field is 134, the number of enterprises in the e-commerce field is 122, and other fields are also there, but the proportion is relatively small, most of the areas they concentrate on are new economies, new formats, such as AI technology, blockchain, intelligent digital mining and other new technology industries, and are constantly innovating, most of which are concentrated in artificial intelligence, big data, intelligent hardware and other fields.
Far ahead of Ant Group and Musk's SpaceX
Ant Group, is the leader of the Internet financial industry, started in 2004 established Alipay, in 2013 officially announced the financial industry, Ant Group to micro-loan, payment, financial management and insurance as the main business, borrowing, Huabei small loan project income accounted for more than one-half, in just a few years, the development has become the industry leader, in the Hurun global unicorn list valuation of 1,000 billion, rapid development, profits are getting better and better, unfortunately some sectors complete isolation, The expected listing plan was stopped, the highest valuation before the listing reached 2.1 trillion yuan, which is the highest market value of the listing plan in history, and the failure of the listing has retreated to the second place in the unicorn list, but Ma Yun plans to expand shares, and the central enterprise China Cinda also joined, and the future listing is just around the corner.
Musk's Spacex plan to recently update the next generation of "Starship" information, the valuation increased by 400 billion yuan, reaching 648.8 billion yuan, surpassing the payment platform Stripe ranked third, becoming the largest unicorn in the United States, the company has developed launch vehicles and cargo Dragon spacecraft, manned dragon spacecraft, etc., while actively promoting the "Starlink" program, aiming to create a global network composed of small satellites, has launched a total of 1944 satellites.
Although Space X is a private company, it successfully launched its self-developed rocket in 2008, and in 2021, it received an order from NASA worth $2.9 billion, officially starting the road to commercial spaceflight. Today, the company launched more than 100 rockets, to do what many countries can not do, most of the unicorns in the United States are engaged in software and finance, the recent metacosm has become a hot spot, but there is no related unicorn, the future of the field will be there, it is worth looking forward to.
ByteDance, a Chinese company that is under the pressure of the leader
Compared with Ant Group and SpaceX, ByteDance has finally reached 2.25 trillion yuan in a short period of 9 years, becoming the world's largest unicorn. The top of the list of ByteDance can pour into the first place, stemming from the company's today's headlines, vibrato and other use areas are relatively wide, especially vibrato, not only the domestic version, but also the overseas version of Tiktok, Tiktok's efficacy is more prominent, the global download volume has exceeded 3 billion times, so prominent results, in the ranking is directly more than the United States SpaceX, Ant Group.
And relevant data show that from 2016 to the present, the revenue has only increased, the revenue from 2016 to 2018 is 6 billion yuan, 16 billion yuan, 50 billion yuan, and the revenue in 2019 directly increased to more than 130 billion yuan, which is simply doubling the growth, the revenue in 2020 is 240 billion yuan, while the Internet giant Tencent's 2020 revenue is 482 billion yuan, Ali's revenue is 509.1 billion, with amazing development speed, it is constantly evolving.
It is understood that Tiktok will become the world's third largest social networking platform in 2022, after Facebook and Instagram, and the number of monthly active people alone will reach 755 million. Not only that, while the short video is doing well, the company has found the development prospect of watching video to make money, so it launched the Douyin Express Edition, today's headlines express version of the software, by June 2021, the monthly active users of Douyin reached 644.85 million, while the number of Kuaishou users who are also short videos is only 417.42 million, in contrast, the prevailing douyin.
In addition, some companies have withdrawn from the list because of listing, such as the previous Didi, Lu jinsuo, etc., 4 in the top ten unicorn lists in 2021, 3 in China, 1 in Australia, the United Kingdom and Sweden are new faces, and China's rookie network ranks ninth, with a valuation of 220 billion yuan, an increase of 45 billion yuan year-on-year. There are 50 companies under the group in the list, of which the mainland accounts for 49, and the largest number comes from Alibaba, and the group has a total of five companies on the list, with a total value of 1,249.5 billion yuan.
The list is always dazzling, there are new faces, old faces, and most of the disappeared on the list originated from the listing of enterprises or mergers with other companies, it is understood that 28% of them are due to corporate listing and other reasons to withdraw, only 7% of the companies are because their valuation fell below $1 billion to fail to win the list, but no matter what, the development momentum of most domestic companies is good, take ByteDance can pressure Ant Group and Musk's SpaceX to the top of the list in a short period of time, Chinese companies are quite powerful, What are the new faces on the next unicorn list? What will be the proportion of China? Worth looking forward to