About TechCrunch

About TechCrunch

TechCrunch, founded on June 11, 2005, is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to new companies, we will profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space. TechCrunch is edited by Michael Arrington, who also writes a companion blog, CrunchNotes.

TechCrunch has been featured on CBS News (again), Technorati 100, Feedster 500, and CNet Top 100 Blogs. TechCrunch was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal online and print editions on December 7, 2005, and in the San Jose Mercury News online and print editions on January 15, 2006. TechCrunch was discussed at length in the cover story of Business 2.0 magazine (print and online) for September, 2006, and was voted the top blog by Business Week readers in a September 2006 poll.

TechCrunch was featured in the online and print editions of the Wall Street Journal on November 3, 2006.

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About Michael Arrington

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.

After Achex, 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.

About Marshall Kirkpatrick

My name’s Marshall Kirkpatrick and I’ve been writing on TechCrunch since June 2006. My initial engagement in the Web 2.0 world was as a consultant getting new tools into the hands of nonprofit organizations. I think many of these technologies stand a chance at changing the world for the better. Those that don’t are often a lot of fun anyway. I work for a nonprofit called NetSquared.org as well as TechCrunch. In the past, I have also written for the Social Software Weblog and use to maintain a busy blog of user tutorials at MarshallK.com.

I am an Oregonian by birth and have a Political Science degree from the University of Oregon. I live in Portland. I don’t have kids, but I do get to be an uncle to my partner’s two nieces. That picture is of me with the younger of the two.

I have no financial disclosures to make beyond my employment by TechCrunch. You can email me at Marshall@techcrunch.com.


About Nick Gonzalez

I have been doing analysis and research writing for TechCrunch since July 2006. I’m a graduate of UC Berkeley with degrees in business administration, economics, and minor in computer science. After graduating, I worked for the Alameda County economic development agency called the Economic Development Alliance for Business (EDAB). Then I worked for the executive compensation data provider Equilar.

I blog also at RunningWithFoxes.com about peripheral research I do about emerging web apps. I’m always interested in hearing about new startups, meeting new people in the industry, and can be reached at Nick[At]TechCrunch.com.

I have no financial disclosures aside from my employment at TechCrunch.

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.

Current Disclosures for Michael Arrington:

  1. I am a founder and significant shareholder in edgeio.
  2. In June 2006 I became a member of the board of directors of Foldera, a publicly held corporation.
  3. I am an investor in a stealth company called Daylife, based in New York.
  4. In August 2006 I became an advisor to Spotback.
  5. A number of companies have paid for advertising and sponsorships on this site. Advertising and editorial functions at TechCrunch are completely separate.
  6. I became an investor in Dogster on September 14, 2006

Past Disclosures:

  1. I was an uncompensated advisor to Pluck on their Blogburst product (relationship now terminated)