Digital ExistentialismEuphemism
Series A
SEER-eez aynoun
What it means
A milestone proving that a company has convinced adults to fund eighteen more months of not being a business.
What it actually means
Eighteen months, and then we have to explain the revenue.
How it is used in a sentence
"We closed a Series A to scale the team."
Filed under
Digital Existentialism — Ideas that were briefly worth billions, explained by people who are briefly employed.
Euphemism — The phrase hides something specific. We decode it.
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Pre-Revenue
Digital Existentialismpree REV-uh-nyooadjectiveEuphemism
A business that has not sold anything, described as though the selling is a formality.
Real meaningWe have no customers.
Unicorn
Digital ExistentialismYOO-nih-kornnounEuphemism
A private company valued at a billion dollars by investors who are also paid to value it.
Real meaningA billion dollars, as agreed by the people paid to agree it.