TechCrunchTechCrunch, founded on June 11, 2005, is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to covering new companies, we profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space.
TechCrunch is co-edited by Michael Arrington and Erick Schonfeld.
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TechCrunch has received the following coverage:
Featured on
CBS News (
again),
Technorati 100,
Feedster 500, and
CNet Top 100 BlogsMentioned in the
Wall Street Journal online and print editions on December 7, 2005
Mentioned in the
San Jose Mercury News online and print editions on January 15, 2006
Discussed at length in the cover story of
Business 2.0 magazine (print and online) for September, 2006
Voted the
top blog by Business Week readers in a September 2006 poll
Featured in the online and print editions of the
Wall Street Journal on November 3, 2006Featured in a
front page story in the San Francisco Chronicle on December 6, 2006
Written up by the
Financial Times in December, 2006
Named one of the
50 Best Business Blogs by the Times of London in June 2007
Written up by
Wired Magazine in June 2007
Featured with other blogs in the
San Francisco Chronicle’s business section on October 21, 2007
Appeared on the Fox Business show
Happy Hour on January 29, 2008.
Interviewed by
Portfolio.com on February 29, 2008
Interviewed on the
Charlie Rose show on March 7, 2008.
Featured in the
Los Angeles Times online and print editions on June 5, 2008.
Heather Harde (CEO)
Joining TechCrunch is a wonderful new adventure for me. Until now, I spent the last ten years working within News Corporation. I’ve held a variety of corporate development, strategy and operating roles both in Los Angeles and New York. Most recently, I was part of the founding team at Fox Interactive Media and their SVP Mergers & Acquisitions. We spent over $1.3 billion on eight acquisitions and two equity deals during my tenure. Our acquisitions spanned pre-launch start-ups all the way through public-company and pre-IPO buyouts.
Prior to Fox Interactive Media, I held a variety of posts at News America Marketing, TVGuide and ASkyB. Before News Corporation, I also worked for Viacom at Showtime Networks. The common theme in my media life has been working on assignments that focus on the impact of technology on media. This theme continues, of course, with TechCrunch. I started out doing investment banking for a small, private bank Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (hence my love for my HP12C). I had the opportunity to work both in New York and Tokyo on corporate advisory and private-equity transactions. I am a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Harvard Business School.
Michael Arrington (Founder, Co-Editor)
A few people have asked me to post a little more information about myself. Instead of the standard corporate picture, I’ve included a picture of me and my dad at game four of the Giants/Angels World Series a few years ago. I like this picture, and it reminds me that every once in a while I need to get away from my computer and live real life. If you want to see my corporate bio, check out my
LinkedIn profile. You can also check out
my Flickr pictures (includes both business and personal pictures).
I grew up in California and Surrey, England. I started college at U.C. Berkeley, and transferred to Claremont McKenna, a tiny college located near Los Angeles, after my freshman year. I majored in economics. I went straight from college to law school at Stanford in 1992, and graduated in 1995.
I spent a few years as a corporate attorney at O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini, working exclusively with technology companies. My clients included idealab, Netscape, Pixar, Apple and a bunch of startups, venture funds and investment banks.
The late nineties were heady days in Silicon Valley - at any given time I was working on a number of IPOs, venture financings, and merger transactions. I also co-authored a book on IPOs while I was working at Wilson Sonsini, which is still in print (on its second edition) by Bowne. I worked all the time.
I left law firm life to join a hot startup and run sales and business development. The startup, RealNames, filed to go public but didn’t make it out before the bubble burst. Eventually, RealNames liquidated after raising over $100 million in venture capital. I left that startup as it was going through the IPO process and co-founded a company called Achex. We raised nearly $20 million after the bubble burst and sold the company to First Data Corp about a year later for $32 million. Achex is now the back end infrastructure to Western Union online.
I’ve worked in an operational role at a Carlyle backed startup in London, founded and ran two companies in Canada (Zip.ca and Pool.com), was COO to a Kleiner backed company called Razorgator, and consulted to other companies, including SnapNames and Verisign. In addition to TechCrunch, I am a founder of
edgeio and a member of the edgeio board of directors.
I’ve been interviewed in a few podcasts where I talk about my passion for startups and give a little more color on why I started TechCrunch.
John Furrier (on Web 2.0 Workgroup) (October 14, 2005)
Chris Pirillo (October 20, 2005)
Steve Gillmor and Mike Vizard (November 7, 2005)
Jon Gordon (November 11, 2005)
Tom Raftery (November 28, 2005)
Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte (December 15, 2005)
VentureWeek with Eric Olson, David Hornik & Brad Feld (December 16, 2005)
Gillmor Gang (January 28, 2006)
I’ve also received the following coverage:
CBS clip with Sue Kwon on May 4, 2006
Named a “
Web Celeb” by Forbes on January 24, 2007
Named one of “
The 50 Most Important People on the Web” by PCWorld in March 2007
In March 2007, had a cameo appearance in the JibJab video “
The News” (at the 1:20 mark)
In June 2007, named by CNN in their list of the
top 100 business people “who matter now.”
In September 2007, named one of the
25 most influential people on the web by Business Week magazine
In June 2007, a Q&A with Steven Levy was in the
print and
online versions of Newsweek
In December 2007 I was named No.2 on the
Forbes Top 25 Web Celebrities list.
I can be reached by email at editor@techcrunch.com.
Disclosures: I (Michael Arrington) occasionally advise and/or invest in companies that may be written about on TechCrunch. Any conflicts are always mentioned if I personally write about that company. For companies like edgeio where I hold a substantial equity interest, my current policy is to have someone other than me write about that company if they appear on TechCrunch, and the conflict of interest is disclosed - see
this example.
My current disclosures:
I am a founder and significant shareholder in
edgeio.
I am an investor in a stealth company called
Daylife, based in New York.
I became an investor in
Dogster on September 14, 2006.
I became an investor in
Omnidrive in December 2006.
I became an investor in
Dancejam in the Spring of 2007.
I became an investor in
Seesmic in November 2007
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