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June 24, 2007
The metoric rise of TechCrunch
Interesting profile of the hectic life of Michael Arrington, who writes the TechCrunch in current issues of Wired Magazine and recently released on Wired News: TechCrunch Blogger Michael Arrington Can Generate Buzz ... and Cash. The empire and influence that is techcrunch is from the bedroom on his rented house in Calif.
And unlike most solo bloggers, Arrington has turned his passion into a tidy business. Revenue from advertising, job listings, and sponsorships now totals about $200,000 a month. He says he could have sold the operation last fall to a media company (which he won't name) for $8.5 million, and he may still. But with a new top-flight CEO from Fox Interactive Media, roughly $1 million in the bank, and VCs lining up around the block to invest, Arrington talks like a man who wants to build an empire.
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By any measure, it has been a remarkable rise. Two years ago, Arrington was a nobody — a former attorney and entrepreneur who, at 35, looked as if he might never hit it big. Now, without a journalism background or media-giant bankroll, he is mentioned in the same sentence as big-shot tech journalist Walt Mossberg and venture capitalists John Doerr and Michael Moritz, two of the guys who backed Google. But Arrington is not only a self-made Silicon Valley rock star, he's a textbook example of how to turn intelligence, tenacity, and arrogance into an Internet brand.
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