{"id":47706,"date":"2026-03-16T09:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/our-march-madness-bracket-is-all-business\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:41:16","slug":"our-march-madness-bracket-is-all-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/our-march-madness-bracket-is-all-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Our March Madness bracket is all business"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69b47a8f4d65ec51752a0272?format=jpeg\" alt=\"BI Today March Madness\"\/><figcaption>\n<p>Getty Images; Tyler Le\/BI<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><em>This post originally appeared in the Business Insider Today newsletter.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>You can sign up for <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/subscription\/newsletter\/insider-today\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Business Insider&#039;s daily newsletter here<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>This. Is. March. (At Business Insider.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NCAA men&#039;s and women&#039;s basketball tournaments kick off this week. March Madness is considered one of the best sporting events of the year, but why let them have all the fun?<\/p>\n<p>Here at BI Today, we&#039;re doing a bracket of our own, and we need your help. Below you&#039;ll find an eight-team bracket made up of some of the biggest trends in business, seeded from one (highest) to eight.<\/p>\n<p>(My colleague Joe Ciolli is doing a bracket for First Trade focused on specific companies. You can check out his over here.)<\/p>\n<p>Voting will stay open until Thursday night. Next Monday I&#039;ll share the results, and we&#039;ll have another round of voting. We&#039;ll repeat the process until we have a winner!<\/p>\n<p>The last time we did this in 2024 \u2014 I skipped last year; having a kid really threw a wrench in my plans \u2014 it came down to the US presidential election vs artificial intelligence, with the election barely beating out AI.<\/p>\n<p>A quick note before we dive in: The war in Iran obviously has massive ramifications across the business world. But the conflict is fluid, so I didn&#039;t include it. After all, it wouldn&#039;t be March Madness without a team feeling it got unfairly left out of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SaaSpocalypse (1) vs Autonomous vehicles (8): <\/strong>It&#039;s been a bloodbath for software companies, an example of the power of AI. Meanwhile, self-driving cars have become a big bet for everyone from Tesla to Uber.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prediction markets (4) vs Tariffs (5): <\/strong>No word on if prediction markets will set a market on this bracket, but I promise not to insider trade. In the meantime, the will-they-won&#039;t-they tariff drama continues, with a new legal twist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vibe coding (3) vs Longevity (6): <\/strong>It&#039;s not just a vibe. It&#039;s big business these days. And it&#039;s not just Bryan Johnson and Alphaville who want to live forever anymore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Private credit (2) vs Robotics (7): <\/strong>Every private-credit executive will tell you they&#039;re not the problem, but there&#039;s plenty of concern about the wider industry. However, perhaps the most underrated evolution taking place in the business world is on manufacturing floors.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Images; Tyler Le\/BI This post originally appeared in the Business Insider Today newsletter. You can sign up for Business Insider&#039;s daily newsletter here. This. Is. March. (At Business Insider.) The NCAA men&#039;s and women&#039;s basketball tournaments kick off this week. March Madness is considered one of the best sporting events of the year, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}