KEY POINTS
A majority of the CNBC Disruptor 50 start-ups are in hiring mode, even as the U.S. unemployment rate sits at 13.5% due to Covid-19.
Many of these companies have an existing focus on health care, financial services, cloud connectivity, digital marketing and online distribution to consumers, and they have seen demand for their core products and services more than double during the economic shutdown.
Machine learning and artificial intelligence underlie much of the explosive growth.
