As economies around the world slide into recession, any business deviating from the downturn will always catch our eye. Enter California-based ad-buying platform, The Trade Desk, which has finished the first quarter of the year with a strikingly impressive set of results, albeit because of pre-Covid victories. Despite a shortfall in business in March, the company’s net income is up 138% year on year (YoY) to $24.1 million, while revenues are up 33% YoY to $160.7 million. Earnings call transcripts saw CEO, Jeff Green, rallying the troops for a tidal wave of CTV-centric business when the market returns, although he was unable to give any reassurance of when that may be. Of course, the pandemic has not left The Trade…