Twin Black Brits are Silicon Valley’s Latest Unicorns
The Kent-Braham brothers are redefining what it means to be a “Tech bro” in 2021.
The definition of a Unicorn for the uninitiated is as follows:
In business, a unicorn is a privately held startup company valued at over $1 billion [2] The term was first popularized in 2013 by venture capitalist Aileen Lee, choosing the mythical animal to represent the statistical rarity of such successful ventures.
Over the past few years, we have come to associate the likes of Stripe, Byte Dance, SpaceX, Klarna, Reddit, Telegram as well as the likes of Uber and Air b’n’b with the term Unicorn, even though the latter two have since gone public and the word isn’t strictly applicable to them anymore.
We have also come to associate these organizations, rather implicitly and sometimes explicitly with a certain demographic, gender and nationality: white males and mostly Americans.
Here in the United Kingdom, according to national statistics, the chances of being an identical twin is three in 1,000 and the chances of starting a business being worth a billion dollars is one in 2,500.
And yet, given these somewhat insurmountable odds, identical twin brothers, Alexander and Oliver Kent-Braham have built an organization valued at over 1 billion dollars.