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apparently startup means "not being public"

because "being public" is the real "cashing out" at which point they stop "starting up". They actually begin to "shut down"

I don't recall where I read it, but this process was described best as the transition from a "start up" to an "end up"

Guess Aldi is a startup then

I guess with that definition, Europe has a lot of very valuable start ups.

I feel like the definition of “startup” changed quite a bit, but not as much as the word “hacker”

> In what sense is it proper to continue to refer to it as a “startup”?

Does it have a "ticker" yet on NYSE/NASDAQ?

So startup = private company?

By that logic, the Mars candy corporation at over 110 years old in its n-generations long family ownership qualifies. Because when I think of startups I think of Snickers, etc.