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Michael Arrington

J Michael Arrington born March 13, 1970 is the American founder and former co-editor 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 named Arrington one of the most powerful people on the Internet[2][3] In 2008, he was selected by TIME Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world[4]

1 Biography

2 TechCrunch

3 CrunchFund

4 CrunchPad

5 References

6 External links

Born in Huntington Beach, California, Arrington grew up in Huntington Beach, California and Surrey, England, attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a major in economics He went on to Stanford Law School and graduated in 1995 He practiced corporate and securities law at O’Melveny & Myers, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati[5]

Arrington left the practice of law to join Real Names, which failed after raising $100M[3] Arrington was co-founder of Achex, an internet payments company, which was sold to First Data Corp for US$32 million and is now the back end of Western Union online "I made enough to buy a Porsche Not much more," he said in 2007[3]

His other entrepreneurial endeavors include co-founding Zipca and Poolcom, acting as chief operating officer for Razorgator, and founding Edgeio He was also more recently on the board of directors for the startup Foldera, which was designing a software as a service organizational tool[citation needed]

He identifies as a libertarian, saying, "I just see government as this thing that stops us from doing things"[6]

Michael Arrington with Chamillionaire

In 2013 he was accused of physical abuse by an ex-girlfriend,[7] but the suit was dropped in court the following year[8]

TechCrunch

Arrington rose to internet prominence with his Silicon Valley blog, TechCrunch TechCrunch covers internet startups and news In early September 2011, Arrington was reported to be no longer employed by TechCrunch but associated with a new investment company, AOL Ventures[9] Within days, it was being reported that he was no longer associated with AOL Ventures[10]

In October 2012, Arrington returned to writing for the Tech Crunch blog[11]

CrunchFund

In 2011, Arrington founded a venture capital firm called CrunchFund along with MG Siegler and Patrick Gallagher[12] In 2014, CrunchFund invested in BlueFly, an online retailer, which was bought, in May 2013, by affiliates of Clearlake Capital Group for USD$13 million[13] As a result of CrunchFund's investment, former BlueFly CEO Melissa Payner returned to BlueFly[14]

In July 2008, Arrington started a project called the Crunchpad, over a year before the iPad was released The Crunchpad was meant to be an affordable tablet computer that catered to a niche between desktop computers and laptops However, disputes arose between Arrington and the developers he had chosen for the Crunchpad The developers broke off from Arrington and released the device on their own but it received few sales,[15] and the developers later went bankrupt[16]

References

^ ab California Births, 1905–1995, Jack M Arrington

^ Ewalt, David M "In Pictures: The Web Celeb 25" Forbes Archived from the original on 30 July 2012 Retrieved 28 June 2012

^ abc Fred Vogelstein June 22, 2007 "TechCrunch Blogger Michael Arrington Can Generate Buzz and Cash" Wired Retrieved 28 June 2012

^ Huffington, Arianna 12 May 2008 "The 2008 TIME 100: Michael Arrington" Time magazine Retrieved 28 June 2012

^ CrunchBase Profile

^ DePillis, Lydia 2013-05-06 "Mark Zuckerberg's Cynical, Necessary Washington Strategy" The New Republic Retrieved 2013-05-07

^ chen, adrian 2013-01-04 "TechCrunch Founder's Ex-Girlfriend Claims He Physically Abused Her" Gawker Media Retrieved 2016-07-27

^ Wingfield, Nick 2014-06-27 "Michael Arrington Drops Suit After Rape Accuser Recants" New York Times Retrieved 2016-07-27

^ Henry Blodget 2011-09-02 "ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: Mike Arrington Is Out At TechCrunch" Business Insider Retrieved 2012-08-08

^ CNNMoney, "Arrington out at AOL For real this time" by Dan Primack, September 7, 2011

^ Jay Kirscht October 23, 2012 "Arrington Also MG Returns" Tech Crunch

^ "CrunchFund on CrunchBase"

^ Karr, Arnold J 12 February 2014 "Bluefly Gets CrunchFund Investment" WWD Retrieved 12 February 2014

^ Arnold J Karr and Rachel Brown 13 February 2014 "Melissa Payner Rejoins Bluefly as CrunchFund Invests" WWD Retrieved 13 February 2014

^ "JooJoo tablet gets just 90 pre-orders" Electronista MNM Media, LLC 2010-03-30 Archived from the original on 2010-04-02 Retrieved 2010-04-02 PayPal documents discovered today as part of the ongoing TechCrunch lawsuit against Fusion Garage have revealed that just 90 pre-orders were submitted before the JooJoo tablet began shipping last week The actual honored pre-orders were even lower as 15 of the orders were cancelled and refunded, although this didn't include pre-orders for the last few weeks before the March 25th ship date

^ "Fusion Garage sinks into liquidation, owes creditors some $40 million" Engadget 2012-01-09 Retrieved 2015-11-03

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington Personal Weblog

Profile at CrunchBase

Appearances on C-SPAN

"TechCrunch Site Makes Arrington A Power Broker", Wall Street Journal, 2006-11-03

"The makings of a media mogul: Michael Arrington", Elias Bizannes's blog, 2008-12-26