ET Soonicorns Summit 2025: How founders are choosing profitability over pure valuation chasing

“Valuations are not worth chasing in isolation. What you can and should chase are performance and milestones—valuations will follow. Today, more than ever, valuations are pegged to public markets, not just private benchmarks. Public market investors apply their own filters, so sustainability is visible in the numbers. In my view, chasing unicorn, soonicorn, or minicorn tags is misguided. If you focus on performance and sustainability, valuation takes care of itself.”