Is Quora a unicorn?

Yes. Quora is officially a unicorn. It is now valued at $1.8B. Quora just became the unicorn of subjective human knowledge. After eight years carefully cultivating an intelligent question and answer community, it's just raised an $85 million Series D round co-led by Collaborative Fund and Y Combinator's Continuity Fund. read more

At its height, “unicorn horn” was literally worth 10 times its weight in gold. In 1560, German merchants sold a unicorn horn for an astronomical 90,000 scudi—then about £18,000—to the pope. Pharmacies in London sold powdered unicorn horn as late as 1741. 9. read more

In European folklore, the unicorn is often depicted as a white horse-like or goat-like animal with a long horn and cloven hooves (sometimes a goat's beard). In the Middle ages and Renaissance, it was commonly described as an extremely wild woodland creature, a symbol of purity and grace. read more

The unicorn also had a great publicity department—to wit, King James. Translators for the King James Bible chose to render references to some animal called a "re'em" that they didn't quite understand as "unicorns". read more