Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley

According to reporting in The Economist earlier today, Silicon Valley is facing a plague of zombie unicorns—startups once valued at a billion dollars or more that are neither thriving nor dead. These companies continue to operate with massive funding, but without clear paths to profitability or achieving their original mission. They occupy an eerie middle ground: too well-funded to fail, too stalled to succeed. The trend reflects the broader cooling of the startup ecosystem after years of explosive growth and easy capital, leaving investors and entrepreneurs grappling with the reality that valuation alone doesn't guarantee viability.

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