{"id":7519,"date":"2019-04-22T02:36:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T17:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=7519"},"modified":"2019-04-19T18:30:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T09:30:11","slug":"the-economist-april-20-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=7519","title":{"rendered":"The Economist (April 20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cInvestors often describe the world of business in terms of animals, such as bears, bulls, hawks, doves and dogs. Right now, mere ponies are being presented as unicorns: privately held tech firms worth over $1bn that are supposedly strong and world-beating\u2014miraculous almost.\u201d Except they\u2019re not. Many so-called unicorns lack effective business models. In fact, \u201ca dozen unicorns that have listed, or are likely to, posted combined losses of $14bn last year. Their cumulative losses are $47bn.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cInvestors often describe the world of business in terms of animals, such as bears, bulls, hawks, doves and dogs. Right now, mere ponies are being presented as unicorns: privately held tech firms worth over $1bn that are supposedly strong and world-beating\u2014miraculous almost.\u201d Except they\u2019re not. Many so-called unicorns lack effective business models. In fact, \u201ca [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3741,61,712,9033,5261,9032],"class_list":["post-7519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-business-models","tag-investors","tag-losses","tag-miraculous","tag-unicorns","tag-world-beating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7522,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions\/7522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}