Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.The world is a mess today.
Everything that trades is down, and sentiment is in the toilet.
Even Robinhood is undertaking its ritual downtime, ensuring that its userbase holds through the selloff.
The unicorns inability to stay online could be viewed as feature instead of a bug.
How? Because it prevents panic selling, we suppose.On a more serious note, what is going to happen to startups during all of this? In honor of thinking out loud, I have a few guesses that I wanted to write down.
As always, though, I want to hear from you.
Email in if you have a prediction thats worth sharing.1 I might post a few later in the week.For everyone in a hurry, heres my set of guesses (details below): SaaS valuations retreat, but retain their premium; D2Cs problems multiply, but select players survive; customer acquisition costs (CAC) issues lessen as spend slows; venture totals slip materially in Q1 (never mind what you read on VC Twitter); Q1 IPOs are garbage and Q2 doesnt get much better unless stocks return to highs.Lets dig into each in detail.