Michael Arrington

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Name:	Michael Arrington
Age:	40 (b. 1970)

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Founder and Co-Editor: TechCrunch

Michael Arrington is the founder and co-editor of TechCrunch.

J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news.

Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1993), and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. His clients included idealab, Netscape, Pixar, Apple and a number of startups, venture funds and investment banks. He also co-authored a book on initial public offerings.

In 1999 he left WSGR to join RealNames as VP Business Development and General Counsel. In 2000 he cofounded Achex, an online payments company. Achex was acquired by First Data Corp in 2001 for $32 million. Achex is now the back end infrastructure to Western Union online.

Arrington 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 Verisign.

He founded TechCrunch on June 11, 2005.

In May 2008 Time Magazine named Michael Arrington as one of the world’s 100 most influential people.

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3/8/10:

Facebook Looks To Be Partnering With Eventbrite To Monetize ...

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Facebook Looks To Be Partnering With Eventbrite To Monetize Events - Here's a fascinating idea - Facebook looks to be partnering with Eventbrite to let users sell tickets to the 3.5 million events added to Facebook each month. - Earlier this month we confirmed ... - read more at Techmeme

tags: Facebook TechCrunch Eventbrite

3/7/10:

Zynga Loses One Of Its Founders, Andrew Trader

Zynga has lost one of the members of its founding team, Michael Arrington at TechCrunch reports. Andrew Trader, EVP of sales and business development is stepping down. He was with the company since 2007. Read the rest of this story »See Also:Ex-MySpace Boss Chris DeWolfe Is Chasing After Zynga ... - read more at Silicon Alley Insider

tags: Zynga Andrew Trader MySpace TechCrunch

3/6/10:

Rug weaving

My last post triggered some interesting debates in the blogosphere about whether entrepreneurs were a product of nature or could be nurtured. It's not black or white. People are a product of their upbringing and education. Average humans can achieve extraordinary feats when they really try. I'll concede ... - read more at TechCrunch

tags: eBay Duke University Twitter TechCrunch Bill Gates

3/5/10:

Redpoint Invests $4.4 Million In Fast Growing Posterous (Michael ...

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Redpoint Invests $4.4 Million In Fast Growing Posterous - San Francisco based Posterous, a fast growing publishing platform, has taken a $4.4 million investment from Redpoint Ventures. Partner Satish Dharmaraj, who is also an individual investor in Posterous, led ... - read more at Techmeme

tags: TechCrunch Redpoint

3/3/10:

Open-source hardware takes steps toward gadget mainstream

Open-source software is one of the great success stories of the past few decades. The Apache HTTP Server is the world's most popular Web server, Linux has more than held its own against Unix and other proprietary operating systems, and Mozilla's Firefox browser has given Microsoft's Internet Explorer ... - read more at The Industry Standard

tags: Apple Gartner Microsoft Computerworld TechCrunch Mark Driver

3/2/10:

sam odio

The whole Daniel Brusilovsky/ TechCrunch Crunchgate free laptops for coverage saga continues to drag on like a poorly written soap opera with a post from the founder of startup Divvyshot. Sam Odio confesses in a blog post that he was the startup founder at the center of the storm, and that Daniel asked ... - read more at Inquisitr

tags: TechCrunch

3/1/10:

Where 2.0: Early Registration Ending & Ignite Where

Where 2.0, our mapping and geolocation conference, is at the end of March in San Jose and early registration is ending tonight. We are also opening the selection process for Ignite Where. Where has a full program. We've got a number of great thinkers returning. We are also welcoming first-timers like ... - read more at O'Reilly Radar

tags: DigitalGlobe Techcrunch Yelp Walter Scott Jeremy Stoppelman

2/23/10:

In the light of the 5,000 app purge, developers should take ...

All of the developers I've spoken to this evening about Apple's ‘5,000 app purge' have spoken on condition of anonymity. Nobody wants to criticise Apple, it seems. (Here's the post I wrote earlier) I can well understand this — especially if you've got a good revenue stream coming from the ... - read more at SMS Text News

tags: Apple BlackBerry TechCrunch

2/20/10:

Octazen: What The Heck Did Facebook Just Buy Exactly, And Why? ...

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Octazen: What The Heck Did Facebook Just Buy Exactly, And Why? - Facebook has acquired its third company, Malaysian startup Octazen Solutions. Facebook says this is largely a talent acquisition, according to GigaOm. Octazen has a slightly different story on their ... - read more at Techmeme

tags: Facebook TechCrunch

2/19/10:

You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

It was a strange week all right. Google's Buzz social media service continued to garner attention, and not in a good way. Intel and Nokia announced yet another oddly named mobile operating system. Barbie (yes, the doll) got a new job. And in perhaps the weirdest news of all, Microsoft unveiled mobile ... - read more at The Industry Standard

tags: Google Microsoft Southwest Airlines Examiner.com Facebook Wikimedia Foundation Twitter TechCrunch American Idol

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