Exit unicorns, pursued by bears

Re:Exit unicorns, pursued by bears by grey-area on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @02:05AM (#22800713)

What a wonderful headline; I almost don't need to read the story. The economist has always been very clever with their copywriting.

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Re:Exit unicorns, pursued by bears by Amorymeltzer on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @05:36AM (#22801707)

It's derived from one of Shakespeare's less popular plays, Winter's Tale, which contains the amusing stage direction "Exit, pursued by a bear."[1] (Apologies if you knew this, sincerity via text is hard)

Their actual headline/url seems to be "Technology startups are headed for a fall," which is less fun.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Winter%27s_Tale#The_Bear

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Re:Exit unicorns, pursued by bears by taneq on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @08:26AM (#22802530)

As one of today's lucky 10,000, thanks for posting this. :)

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Re:Exit unicorns, pursued by bears by kristjankalm on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @04:21AM (#22801360)

also -- this markes the absolute lowpoint in the play and things start slowly but definitely improving from that point on. although Antigonus does end up eaten by the bear.

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Re:Exit unicorns, pursued by bears by onion2k on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @05:37AM (#22801711)

although Antigonus does end up eaten by the bear.

Spoilers!

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