Short Story of TechCrunch Founder
Michael Arrington
Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Orange, California) is the co-editor and
founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon
Valley technology start-up communities and the wider technology field in USA and
elsewhere. Magazines such as Wired and Forbes have entitled Arrington one of the
most powerful people on the Internet. In 2008, he was selected by TIME Magazine
as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Wired magazine also included
him in a flowchart of ‘internet blowhards’ citing his obsession with ‘Web 2.0’.
Arrington graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a major in economics and
attended the University of California, Berkeley. He went on to Stanford Law School.
He practiced corporate and securities law at O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini
Goodrich & Rosati but afterwards quit it.
Michael Arrington left the practice of law to
join real names as VP Business Development and General Counsel. In 2000, he cofounded
Achex, an online payment company which was sold to First Data Corp for and is now
the back end of Western Union online. His other entrepreneurial endeavors include
co-founding Zip.ca and Pool.com, acting as chief operating officer for Razorgator
and founding Edgeio. He also consulted to other companies, including Verisign. He
was also on the board of directors for the startup Foldera which was designing a
software as a service organizational tool.
TechCrunch was founded on June 11, 2005, as a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling
and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to covering new companies,
it also profiles existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or
cultural) on the new web space. TechCrunch has now grown into a network of technology
focused sites offering a wide range of content and new media. The best part in TechCrunch
is that it actually helps meeting people in person thereby giving them opportunity
to share their passions with one another.
TechCrunch is affiliated with several other websites, commonly referred to as The
TechCrunch Network. These include CrunchNotes, TechCrunch France, TechCrunch Japan,
TechCrunch Europe, MobileCrunch, TalkCrunch and so on. Hundreds of companies and
products have been featured here. Traffic and RSS subscribers continue to grow with
around 65,000 RSS and e-mail subscribers and TechCrunch serves 1-2 million page
views per month.
In 2007, Arrington brought CEO Heather Harde and co-editor Erick Schonfeld into
the TechCrunch ranks. Harde and Schonfeld have since helped build a talented stable
of writers, engineers and contributors. Today, TechCrunch boasts over 40 employees,
as it continues to become one of the most influential news brands in the tech industry,
maintaining its place at the top of “TechMeme’s Leaderboard” as the #1 source of
breaking tech news.
Lots of changes have taken place in TechCrunch during the last twelve years and
Arrington is confident to bring more improvements in it in the future.
Biography of Michael Arrington will be really worth reading for those
who want to do something special in their life.
