Techcrunch becomes 20. I have been here half that time. I previously worked on numerous large media property, including Time Inc, Dow Jones and Reuters; This has been the best job of my life, that is perhaps why time went so fast.
There is nothing above the culture here. Contrarian, smart, hilarious and hardworking. Almost everyone at TC wears multiple hats, as everyone who has worked here will tell you. This is not just a media company – it is a place where people are curious about everything, everyone gives a crazy amount to the brand (and each other), and where challenging conventional wisdom is not only encouraged, but is expected.
In the past decade I have personally had the opportunity to interview some great people: Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, Lina Khan, Conan O My colleagues have together with thousands of more spoken whose impact on our lives is felt daily. From these conversations we learned – then explained to our readers – how technology, policy and human ambition cross each other to shape the world.
We have done this from our houses, from coffee shops, from offices, but also all over the world to the many places that Techcrunch has brought us, from Lisbon, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris and Davos to (almost) the opposite end of the world: Lagos, Nairobi, Hong Kong and Hangzhou.
In these cities we led with founders who became superstars and superstars that became prisoners. We have seen boring technologies that take over the world and celebrated technologies that have passed into dumping fires.
We have born entire industries, mature and sometimes wilt. We have seen how two-person startups are trillion-dollar companies. We have treated business innovations. We have reported about breakthroughs that have changed everything. We also treated “breakthroughs” that amounted to bupkis.
And we are still there. In recent weeks alone, TC has gone with the Prime Minister of Greece and the mayor of San Francisco; We have also dealt with big stories with the most prominent VCs, startup founders and major technical outfits in the industry. I would stack our transport, startup, cyber security and AI coverage against everyone.
These are difficult times in the media; It is one of the growing number of industries in Flux. But for everyone who is cheerfully written about the supposed downfall of TC, we are still there. Twenty years in, we still break the stories that matter, still hold the power responsible and still find the next big thing before it is clear to everyone.
Michael Arrington, thanks for making this brand that became so much more than we could have imagined. Thanks to every parent company that supported us and helped us to continue to do what we love, including today, is raining. The ownership of TC has changed over the years, but our mission to find the signal in the noise and to tell stories that matter remains the same.
Here is the perspective that twenty years gives you, and ask more questions for twenty years, help readers to look around the corners and work with people who are even worth the roughest days.
To anyone who is part of this story – writers, editors, sources, readers, presenters, speakers, critics and cheerleaders – thank you for making techcrunch what it is, a place for people who want to understand what is coming, who strongly believe that technology can improve the world – and who trust to call if it doesn’t. We appreciate you.
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