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Explore the key factors behind building billion-dollar businesses in this 44-minute Stanford seminar featuring Ravi Belani, managing director of Alchemist Accelerator and lecturer at Stanford's Department of Management Science and Engineering. Gain insights into the Silicon Valley ecosystem, venture capital dynamics, and the characteristics of transformational venture-scale businesses. Discover the importance of gross margins, sources of growth, network effects, and Moore's Law in creating successful startups. Learn about the role of founding entrepreneurs, the rationale behind funding companies like Tesla, and the impact of fast followers in the tech industry. Understand the elements that contribute to unicorn involvement and how they shape the landscape of high-growth startups.