JEREMY ENECIO | NEW COVER ART – THE AGE OF UNICORPSES FOR FORTUNE MAGAZINE

January 26, 2024    Jeremy Enecio

“The era of free money is over, and unicorns are paying the price.” says the CEO of Fortune Magazine. Fortune Cover art: take 2: Below you’ll see #lcmartist Jeremy Enecio original cover art “The Age of Unicorns” from February 2015, a time when running a start-up was a lot less stressful. 10 years later, insert February 2024, the “The Age of Unicorpses.” “In 2013, when venture capitalist Aileen Lee coined the term “unicorn” to describe billion-dollar startups, only a few dozen companies fit the description… by 2021, over 1,200 companies and in 2015 Fortune announced the “The Age of Unicorns…fast forward to today, unicorns are failing at a rapid clip. Newly minted unicorns risk being eclipsed by “unicorpses”–former high-flying startups gone belly-up.” This transitional cover is one for the books and one of the coolest pieces we’ve been a party of — grateful!