Michael Arrington

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J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach , California ) is an American entrepreneur. He is the founder and former editor-in-chief of TechCrunch , a blog that covers companies in Silicon Valley ( startups ), as well as the broader tech field of the United States and the world. Magazines like Wired and Forbes named Arrington one of the most powerful people on the internet. In 2008 TIME magazine listed him as one of the most influential people in the world.

Life

Arrington grew up in California and Surrey , England . He attended the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a major in economics . Arrington then went to Stanford Law School until 1995 . He worked in corporate and capital markets law at O'Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati . Arrington was a co-founder of Achex , an Internet payment company which was sold to First Data for 32 million US dollars and which now provides the backend of the Western Union's online platform . He was also the co-founder of Zip.ca and Pool.com , as well as the COO of Razorgator , and founder of Edgeio . Arrington is also a member of the board of directors of the startup Foldera , which is a software as a service organizational tool . In October 2010, he made a name for himself as he is at Facebook mail address E-the former with a known Google -CEO Eric Schmidt had registered and thus found a vulnerability in this social network.

In September 2011, Arrington left TechCrunch as editor-in-chief and announced that he would take care of his new venture capital fund, Crunchfund . At the same time, he continues to write as a freelance blogger on his new blog Uncrunched . He's been writing for TechCrunch again since October 2012.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fred Vogelstein: TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington Can Generate Buzz ... and Cash. Wired , June 22, 2007, accessed July 6, 2010 .
  2. ↑ In Pictures: The Web Celeb 25. Forbes , accessed July 6, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Arianna Huffington: Michael Arrington - The 2008 TIME 100. TIME , April 30, 2009, accessed July 6, 2010 .
  4. ↑ About TechCrunch. (No longer available online.) TechCrunch , archived from the original on July 9, 2010 ; Retrieved July 6, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / techcrunch.com
  5. ↑ Michael Arrington. CrunchBase, accessed July 6, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Michael Arrington: Being Eric Schmidt (On Facebook). TechCrunch , October 10, 2010, accessed October 14, 2010 .
  7. ↑ Facebook vulnerability: Blogger successfully pretends to be Google boss. Spiegel Online , October 11, 2010, accessed October 14, 2010 .
  8. ↑ Arrington is leaving Techcrunch for good ( memento from December 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) in: ftd.de from September 13, 2011
  9. ^ Arrington (Also MG) Returns , October 23, 2012, accessed June 21, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Arrington, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arrington, J. Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Huntington Beach , California