For a solid few decades, tech has been the primary resident in the land of financial milk and honey. Technology peddlers took up the top spots in the world’s most valuable companies; their executives morphed into the most influential people, shaping the ‘metagenda’, and launching currencies with a single tweet.

There have been so many tech unicorns – a private startup valued at over $1 billion – that the categorisation soon became far less meaningful for assessment, the valuations sometimes utter fictions; enter the centaur who could demonstrate revenue of $100 million. Real-world revenue.