{"id":12923,"date":"2021-07-21T17:48:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T17:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/maybe-spacs-were-a-bad-idea-after-all\/"},"modified":"2021-07-21T17:48:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T17:48:42","slug":"maybe-spacs-were-a-bad-idea-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/tech\/maybe-spacs-were-a-bad-idea-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe SPACs were a bad idea after all"},"content":{"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? Sign up here. Ready? Let\u2019s talk money, startups and spicy IPO rumors. Hello friends, I was out yesterday with what I\u2019m calling Moderna Syndrome. 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