On June 11, 2005 I wrote a post titled Technorati Beta Profile, and TechCrunch was born. Today we turn four years old.
Over the years I’ve written long posts marking the day with lots of stats. I’m not going to do that today though. All I’m going to do is say Thank You to the awesome people who I get to work with, and the awesome people who come here to read this blog. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
We’re having a small party at our office today to celebrate. I know everyone can’t make it, but you can watch along on the CrunchCam if you like. The fun starts at 4 pm PST. And you can’t miss me, I’m the one wearing the yellow Captain Kirk tshirt (thanks @orli!).
ps – ok just a few stats. This is the 12,896th post on TechCrunch (and lots more across our blog network). Readers have taken the time to leave 607,031 comments to those posts (after we’ve deleted around 20 million spam comments). That’s an average of nearly 50 comments per post. 5.5 million of you come to visit us each month, making us by far the largest media company in the world that starts with “T” and ends with “Crunch.” I love each and every one of you. Except for the crazy psychos. I don’t love you so much.
congrats TC, amazing to see the comments stat. 50x more comments than posts goes to show the involvement of the community.
thanks to Mike for creating and fostering the startup community and even handed coverage.
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happy birthday TC and thank you for running a spam free site.
Yeah, except for the Locator dude…
HEY WAIT that’s you!
LOL..his was a comment bait, and you (we) just fell for it..
Congrats TC, keep up the great writing and profiles. All that’s needed now is a techcrunchlocator.com now huh?
Jon
Thanks for the great party yesterday Mike. Cool to see the new offices! Congrats on 4 years, its been a helluva time so far. Scott
Belated Happy Birthday to TC.
Your blog age is the square root of my age.lol.
http://www.smartbloggerz.com
Wow, 4 years old. I guess this means TC is ready to enter Pre-school.
Congrats! Though 4 years does not seem long for a company, I wonder how many blogs have been active (and profitable) for that long.
congrats, very happy to be a small part of the team. to many years to follow!
Yea but don’t count on being part of this team when next year rolls around hehe….jk
Congrats guys..Nice Job
hey robin is ghettocrunch your Easter egg?
haha, no, but it could be
http://ghettocrunch.co.cc/
Happy birthday! For your gift, I will give you the opportunity to write about my startup!
Congratulations to Arrington & the team!
It’s good to see you outlive web 2. 0
Roll on web 3.0
wishing a happy birthday to a company?? seems kinda odd, but well done for surviving this long.
Despite the nay-sayers and the haters and the ranters-and-ravers, it’s still the best info source for geeks and nerds and wannabe webtrepreneurs*
If you keep going, I’ll keep commenting.
Steve
* Webtrepreneur idea © Steven495, 2009
Happy Birthday. I remember reading my first techcrunch post on July 11, the day of the London train bombings. Here’s to many more years.
-jlb
Congrats! You’ve come along way. I’ve been reading you for years and I’m sure I’ll continue to do so. Keep up the good work.
That’s an incredible milestone. Now that you’ve reached 4 yrs old, I’d love to see a post about where you see Techcrunch in 4 years from now.
Happy Birthday
LOVE reading this god damned site about 20 times in the day.
Happy Birthday
HB2U!!!
Congrats Mike and team – you guys break all the right rules. It’s been a fast and crazy four years. Keep at it!
Happy birthday
I should just like to add that Mr David Winer is predicting the death of TC on Friendfeed right now – but he is a biter old man.
Happy Birthday to ALL.
nice article..
one question though…
whose dog is that in the crunch cam? and wat is its name?
That’s Mike’s dog Laguna.
Happy Birthday! Good luck with the future!
Congrats on turning 4! Hope the next 4 years are as exciting and prosperous as the first 4!
Happy Birthday. Thanks for allowing my babble on these pages. Only trying to help and you help with that. Always interesting articles and comments.
Congrats and wish you many more great years. Cheers.
Techcrunch.com birthdaySmack – love you guys. Keep Smackin forever.
Happy birthday from Dublin. From a wanabee Techcrunch company CTO.
Congrats! …you should probably give me a CrunchPad to celebrate.
Congrats guys…..
I can’t believe that I have been following TechCrunch for almost 4 years now. I think this classifies as the longest relationship ive had with anyone.
Cheers
it’s officially the longest i’ve ever held a job, too.
And the one you’ll probably retire
…
Happy Birthday from Ukraine!
I’ve been reading since the beginning and have greatly enjoyed the ride. Well done.
Hi Michael + Team,
Glad to hear that all those crazies out there aren’t deterring you from doing what you do.
Congrats on the 4 years! To me, nothing goes better together than TC and cheerios
Cheers!
Congratulations. It’s been a great four years, and I can’t wait for the Crunch networks continued domination.
Happy Birthday, y’all. Been reading you guys just about since day one, so I’m glad to see you still around and staying the course.
Keep up the good work and we hope you never sell out.
Cheers,
Matt
happy birthday to you…
happy birthday to you…
techcruch: the best of web!
thank you
(a blogger from Turin)
On the East Coast so can’t make the party. Watching party cam. Hoping for some entertainment when the liquid refreshment gets flowing. Happy birthday and I wish you a long life.
You can add to your list of awards: Most stereotypical people in a single webcam stream.
Happy Birthday TC! I’ve been reading this blog for almost as long as it’s on-line and to see it grow and evolve the way it has is simply amazing.
May the next 4 years be even more amazing and filled with even more great moments than the first 4!
Cheers and HB!!
Happy Birthday Techcrunch! Interestingly enough, it is GasBuddy’s 9 year birthday today as well! Sounds like we both ate cake today! Congrats.
On behalf of the good people of Nigeria, I say crunchgratulations!!
Happy birthday Mike
Techcrunch Rocks
Happy birthday TC. May we all be even better blogs four years from now. If things change as much in the next four years as they have in the last four, I dunno if I want to be around for that (brain implants etc.) but I will happily race you to write about it first. Congratulations Mike on the incredible job you’ve done building TC.
Congratulations! But it seems like Tech Crunch has been around for a lot longer than 4 years.
happy birthday tc
Happy birthday TC and in today’s language, TC is still underage (perhaps the doorman at the local pub will refuse entry to this fellow TC because of it – ie, underage).
I’m a bit tempted to head up to Palo Alto and invite myself to your birthday party.
That would be wrong though.
Happy Birthday, Mike + Gang. Y’all are only two weeks younger than PBwiki — now PBworks. ^_^ Have a beer for me!
Come by late tonight to say “Happy Birthday” and show off my iphone app “Doctor Tricorder”
I can heal your chest pain or open wound, Captain Kirk!
Or declare you life status – You’re not Dead!
Happy Birthday! and honestly its more of a congratulations for the success you guys have achieved in the last 4 years =)
Congratulations! My current job as Research Director at Mendeley is probably thanks to TechCrunch after getting that article about my site written last year.
Congrats! We are fortune to have Arrington and Co around. Keep up the great work!
Happy birthday
Happy B day from Caracas, Venezuela…yes I am probably the only guy from this remote area that reads this blog…
Michael Arrington: ” They have internet in Venezuela??”
On behalf of the good people of China, I say congratultions!
(I’m not from China… just that they have lots of people)
Happy Birthday and thanks for all the great stories over the past 4 years! Have fun at the party!