# Professor Ari Ginsberg discusses "unicorn" business ventures

1 Faculty News November 30, 2015 ![Nikkei logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/nikkei192x144.jpg?itok=R-JXNYmy)>

Excerpt from [Nikkei](http://asia.nikkei.com/Features/Startups/Billion-dollar-unicorns-thrive-on-radical-ideas-big-backers) -- "[Ginsberg](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/ari-ginsberg) posits that it is difficult if not impossible for powerful new ventures to take root in a country that does not welcome challenges to the status quo. Japan appears to fit that description, and, sure enough, the country has no unicorns -- yet."

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