{"id":120774,"date":"2021-03-21T20:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T03:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/tech-companies-predict-the-economic-future"},"modified":"2021-03-21T20:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T03:22:19","slug":"tech-companies-predict-the-economic-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/tech-companies-predict-the-economic-future","title":{"rendered":"Tech companies predict the (economic) future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tech-companies-predict-the-economic-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It\u2019s broadly based on <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/tag\/the-exchange\/\">the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch<\/a>, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/newsletters\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earnings season is coming to a close, with public tech companies wrapping up their Q4 and 2020 disclosures. We don\u2019t care too much about the bigger players\u2019 results here at TechCrunch, but smaller tech companies we knew when they were wee startups can provide startup-related data points worth digesting. So, each quarter The Exchange spends time chatting with a host of CEOs and CFOs, trying to figure what\u2019s going on so that we can relay the information to private companies.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it\u2019s useful, as our chat with <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/11\/05\/inside-fintech-startup-upstarts-ipo-filing\/\">recent fintech IPO Upstart<\/a> proved after we got <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/03\/19\/ai-fintech-products-are-operating-at-scale-and-investor-interest-is-maturing\/\">to noodle with the company<\/a> about rising acceptance of AI in the conservative banking industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It\u2019s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Sign up here. Earnings season is coming to a close, with public tech companies wrapping up their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}