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"Running into a storm is actually better because no one dares follow you there"
Mad Unicorn was inspired by Thailand’s first unicorn-Flash Express in 2021. A unicorn is a startup business that achieves a valuation of at least $1 billion. The names of characters were changed as well as the business name and other conflicts were added, but the drama is said to have hit many of the main challenges Komsan Saelee faced in his rise to fame and fortune.
Santi Saelee is working in a sand mine and too poor to mail his mother a tin of cookies. After being rewarded for helping his boss keep the mine afloat, Santi takes his earnings to Bangkok to make it rich. He tries different ventures and is completely undeterred from asking people for money to invest. After being taken advantage of numerous times, he finally finds the right group to work with and begins a delivery service, hoping to not only become wealthy but also to take revenge against one of the people who swindled him.
Mad Unicorn kept a frenetic pace from beginning to end, scarcely letting the viewer catch their breath. Santi had to deal with sabotage and betrayal. He was also confronted by numerous economic hardships and challenges as he tried to secure funding and not lose the majority stake in his own company. Santi not only thought outside the box, sometimes he folded the box into an origami chicken in order to push his business ideas through. Quitting was never an option for him. The wildly creative and wild CTO Rui Jie, often ran afoul of his tech crew as he worked them relentlessly. CFO Xiao Yu was usually the voice of reason and the right person to hold the purse strings. The team’s nemesis was Kanin with his deep pockets and political influence. Kanin and his son Ken were willing to play dirty in order to drive the rival delivery service out of business.
This drama was raw with even rawer emotions as Santi fought hand, tooth, and nail, willing to risk everything to succeed. Having lived on rats and whatever birds he could kill as a child, Santi refused to go back, and obsessively pushed forward even when success seemed far out of reach. Mad Unicorn was a dream fueled by desperation and desire. I’m not a big fan of business dramas, and this one could be uneven, however, it was compelling from beginning to end.
“I have a big appetite because I am poor.”
8 July 2025
Side note: Ek Thaneth Warakulnukroh was stuck in either a hideous wig or terrible hair and eyebrow powdering.
Santi Saelee is working in a sand mine and too poor to mail his mother a tin of cookies. After being rewarded for helping his boss keep the mine afloat, Santi takes his earnings to Bangkok to make it rich. He tries different ventures and is completely undeterred from asking people for money to invest. After being taken advantage of numerous times, he finally finds the right group to work with and begins a delivery service, hoping to not only become wealthy but also to take revenge against one of the people who swindled him.
Mad Unicorn kept a frenetic pace from beginning to end, scarcely letting the viewer catch their breath. Santi had to deal with sabotage and betrayal. He was also confronted by numerous economic hardships and challenges as he tried to secure funding and not lose the majority stake in his own company. Santi not only thought outside the box, sometimes he folded the box into an origami chicken in order to push his business ideas through. Quitting was never an option for him. The wildly creative and wild CTO Rui Jie, often ran afoul of his tech crew as he worked them relentlessly. CFO Xiao Yu was usually the voice of reason and the right person to hold the purse strings. The team’s nemesis was Kanin with his deep pockets and political influence. Kanin and his son Ken were willing to play dirty in order to drive the rival delivery service out of business.
This drama was raw with even rawer emotions as Santi fought hand, tooth, and nail, willing to risk everything to succeed. Having lived on rats and whatever birds he could kill as a child, Santi refused to go back, and obsessively pushed forward even when success seemed far out of reach. Mad Unicorn was a dream fueled by desperation and desire. I’m not a big fan of business dramas, and this one could be uneven, however, it was compelling from beginning to end.
“I have a big appetite because I am poor.”
8 July 2025
Side note: Ek Thaneth Warakulnukroh was stuck in either a hideous wig or terrible hair and eyebrow powdering.
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