Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington most recently Co-Founded CrunchFund after leading TechCrunch to a successful exit with AOL. His venture investments include Uber, Airbnb and Pinterest. Michael was the Editor of TechCrunch, which he founded in 2005. In 2008 Time Magazine named Michael “One of the World’s 100 most influential people”. Michael also practiced securities law at O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.Michael graduated from Stanford Law School and 
Claremont McKenna College.

The Latest from Michael Arrington

Come To The TechCrunch 10-Year Birthday Meetup

On Saturday June 6 we are celebrating the ten year birthday of TechCrunch. 1,500 people will gather from 12-3 p.m. at the Presidio in San Francisco. Like the meetups ten years ago at my house in Ather

“The Burned-Out Blogger’s Guide To PR” Is Amazing, Hilarious And Mostly True

More than anything else, Jason Kincaid’s new book The Burned-Out Blogger’s Guide To PR is about the startup journey. It has something for everyone, and it’s smart. It’s also laugh-out-loud

TechCrunch Disrupt SF Starts With Uber CEO Travis Kalanick

TechCrunch Disrupt, a thrice-yearly event where they drag me, the founder of TechCrunch, out like Lenin's embalmed body to show I'm still around, is but a week away. And if anything will shock me b

Getting Ready To Disrupt

Wow, it's been a while since I posted here on TechCrunch. Some of you may remember me as the founder of this site. Later I was fired by Arianna Huffington after I started CrunchFund. That sucked

Would Facebook Have Sold To Yahoo for $1.6 Billion? We’ll Never Know

Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel talks about Facebook rejecting a $1 billion offer from Yahoo in 2006. He and Accel’s Jim Breyer were on the same page – “take the money and run.”

If You’re Worried About Likes, Avoid Posting To Facebook From Twitter

Facebook is showing your content to far fewer people than they used to, says Nick Bilton at the NY Times, pointing out that while his subscribers have soared, the number of likes per post has declined

There Was That Whole Internet Thing, Too

Anyone wanting to see the whole “history is written by the victors” thing in process should read Tim Wu and John Gruber battle it out over exactly why Apple has kicked the crap out of ever

Jason Kincaid On The Mythology Of TechCrunch

Editor’s note: The interview between Hunter Walk and Jason Kincaid reprinted below originally appeared on LinkedIn. Follow Hunter on LinkedIn.  I was happily surprised to see Hunter Walk interv

If America Was A Startup We’d All Quit

So I was chatting with my dad yesterday. We had a long drive home after the Department of Homeland Security seized and impounded my boat. The mood was somber. We were talking about how awful America h

Truth, Money, Right, Wrong

Yesterday I wrote about the ongoing CNET editorial independence issue. I said that the editors and journalists at CNET were part of the problem, and suggested that they either publish their (assumed)

“We Are Supposed To Be Truth Tellers”

A couple of weeks ago CNET was put into an absurd situation – they could not favorably cover a technology product because the company behind that product was in litigation with CNET’s pare

Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/nik-cubrilovic">Nik Cubrilovic</a> points out that people were significantly <a target="_blank" href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529

Cue User Data Shows Email Problem Worsening

In 2008 I was griping about 2,433 unread emails in my inbox. Which is nothing. Today it’s up around 7,000, and I declared an email bankruptcy just a few months ago and started fresh. Cue, a hand

The Income Rich Take One For The Team. Thanks!

I love talking about taxes. Our President and both houses of Congress have finally all agreed on a deal on this whole fiscal cliff mess. I’ve been holding my breath on this because I thought for

I’m Bored. What’s Next?

It’s just about 2013 and I gotta say, I’m a little bored. At least, the blogger in me is. As an investor things are just peachy. All this panic about overpriced consumer startups has led to a n

I’m So Ashamed Of TechCrunch Today

TechCrunch reader Kuan Yong sent me an email today showing me something that I thought I’d never see. I thought it must be some photoshopped joke. But I’ve confirmed it for myself. TechCru

Ron Conway: The Painting

Ron Conway, Silicon Valley’s best known angel investor, got quite a gift this evening. Laurene Jobs, the wife of the late Steve Jobs, dropped by the Conway annual holiday party this evening and

Who Is This? (Sprint + Google Voice Is Hopeless)

You can't say I didn't give it an honest try. It was <a target="_blank" href="http://uncrunched.com/2011/10/27/my-iphone-4s-with-google-voice-native-sitting-here-on-my-desk/">over a year ago now</a> t

They Screwed Us. Right Before They Screwed Us Again. #poohead

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.techmeme.com/121205/p22#a121205p22">We just got screwed</a>. More on this below. Nobody says "<a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0">Web

Drop Everything Immediately And Make Your Own Gangnam Style Video With JibJab

A TechCrunch <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/04/jibjab-re-creates-the-original-star-wars-trilogy-now-starring-your-friends/">tradition</a>: wasting time in the office by putting ourselves and
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