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You have been asked to support an investment firm by analyzing trends in high-growth companies. They are interested in understanding which industries are producing the highest valuations and the rate at which new high-value companies are emerging. Providing them with this information gives them a competitive insight as to industry trends and how they should structure their portfolio looking forward.

You have been given access to their unicorns database, which contains the following tables:

dates

ColumnDescription
company_idA unique ID for the company.
date_joinedThe date that the company became a unicorn.
year_foundedThe year that the company was founded.

funding

ColumnDescription
company_idA unique ID for the company.
valuationCompany value in US dollars.
fundingThe amount of funding raised in US dollars.
select_investorsA list of key investors in the company.

industries

ColumnDescription
company_idA unique ID for the company.
industryThe industry that the company operates in.

companies

ColumnDescription
company_idA unique ID for the company.
companyThe name of the company.
cityThe city where the company is headquartered.
countryThe country where the company is headquartered.
continentThe continent where the company is headquartered.

The output

Your query should return a table in the following format:

industryyearnum_unicornsaverage_valuation_billions
industry12021------
industry22020------
industry32019------
industry12021------
industry22020------
industry32019------
industry12021------
industry22020------
industry32019------

Where industry1, industry2, and industry3 are the three top-performing industries.

Spinner
DataFrameas
df
variable
WITH unicorns_2019_2021 AS (
    SELECT
        i.industry,
        f.company_id,
        f.valuation,
        EXTRACT(YEAR FROM d.date_joined) AS unicorn_year
    FROM
        industries i
        JOIN funding f ON i.company_id = f.company_id
        JOIN dates d ON f.company_id = d.company_id
    WHERE
        EXTRACT(YEAR FROM d.date_joined) IN (2019, 2020, 2021)
),
top_industries AS (
    SELECT
        industry,
        COUNT(DISTINCT company_id) AS num_unicorns
    FROM
        unicorns_2019_2021
    GROUP BY
        industry
    ORDER BY
        num_unicorns DESC
    LIMIT 3
),
industry_year_stats AS (
    SELECT
        u.industry,
        u.unicorn_year AS year,
        COUNT(DISTINCT u.company_id) AS num_unicorns,
        ROUND(AVG(u.valuation) / 1000000000.0, 2) AS average_valuation_billions
    FROM
        unicorns_2019_2021 u
        JOIN top_industries t ON u.industry = t.industry
    GROUP BY
        u.industry, u.unicorn_year
)
SELECT
    industry,
    year,
    num_unicorns,
    average_valuation_billions
FROM
    industry_year_stats
ORDER BY
    year DESC,
    num_unicorns DESC;