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American
-
Businessman
Born:
March 13
, 1970
I live a fairly simple life, and that didn't change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didn't buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat. Nothing too fancy or large.
Michael Arrington
Simple Life
,
Fancy
,
Buy
Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.
Michael Arrington
Reason
,
Side
,
Read
The main thing to know about me is that I'm a champion of entrepreneurs and the startups they build. They are my rock stars. If in doubt, I side with them, and that's clear from my writing.
Michael Arrington
Main Thing
,
Entrepreneurs
America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, we'd understand how unfixable the situation is; most of us would leave for a fresh start, and the company would fall apart. America is MySpace.
Michael Arrington
America
,
Nation
,
Divided
I'm a creature of startups. For example, I don't want government interference in the startup ecosystem.
Michael Arrington
Government
,
For Example
I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.
Michael Arrington
Standards
,
Journalist
I am a partner at CrunchFund, a venture capital firm with investments in many startups around the world. I am also a limited partner in many other venture funds which have their own startup investments.
Michael Arrington
Capital
,
Other
,
Which
Sometimes I have so many financial conflicts of interest that I can't even keep them straight.
Michael Arrington
Interest
,
Even
,
Straight
I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.
Michael Arrington
Always
,
Issue
,
I Write
If you really care about Facebook likes, don't just post your stuff to Twitter and then rely on it being republished automatically to Facebook. In my sample size of one, Facebook penalizes you significantly for that and shows that content to far fewer people.
Michael Arrington
About
,
Fewer
,
Automatically
I have Twitter auto-post to my Facebook page, and I occasionally post things directly to Facebook as well. I've always noticed that the direct-to-Facebook approach generates far more likes, but I've never actually gone back and run the averages.
Michael Arrington
Run
,
Back
,
Approach
Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking about WWII without talking about the nuke. Framing the conversation just in terms of open v. closed operating systems, the quality of the hardware or software or who the CEO was, is silly.
Michael Arrington
Talking
,
Software
,
About
Before the Internet, all most people cared about was Office. And Office was really the only reason anyone wanted Windows machines instead of Macs.
Michael Arrington
Reason
,
About
,
Before
I remember endless Apple v. Windows debates in the early '90s when I was in college. Macs were better machines, everyone said; the whole Office thing was a huge pain. It was difficult to transfer files between operating systems, and generally speaking, if you wanted to do Office stuff, you needed a Windows machine.
Michael Arrington
College
,
Needed
,
I Remember
Leaving America means renouncing your citizenship, moving out of the country and leaving family and friends behind. You can retain your citizenship if you like, but you'll still be away from loved ones and still be paying taxes. You lose all the good stuff about America and have to keep all the bad stuff.
Michael Arrington
Country
,
Behind
,
Away
Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.
Michael Arrington
Rules
,
Ensure
,
Impartiality
Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth out.
Michael Arrington
History
,
Before
,
Died
If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.
Michael Arrington
Doing
,
Needs
,
Tech
More than once at TechCrunch, we made AOL extremely uncomfortable with things that we wrote. But they never ordered us to write or not write about something because they understood that not only would we not comply, we'd write a post about the whole thing.
Michael Arrington
About
,
Whole
,
Extremely
Our independence from AOL was so important to me that I negotiated an extremely odd provision in our purchase agreement that allowed me to disclose confidential information about AOL. It was their job never to give me that information. It was not my job to protect it in any way.
Michael Arrington
Independence
,
About
,
Allowed
If AOL had ever ordered me to remove a piece of content from the site for any reason, I would have immediately written about it and disclosed the situation to our readers. And if I had ever ordered a writer to remove content, I would have expected that writer to have done the same to me.
Michael Arrington
Reason
,
About
,
Had
One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of things about our criminal legal system that need to be changed, and this is just one of them. Prosecutors know how to play the press. Most defendants don't.
Michael Arrington
Play
,
Legal System
,
About
I love talking about taxes.
Michael Arrington
Love
,
About
,
I Love
Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest.
Michael Arrington
Carried
,
Most
,
Vast Majority
Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.
Michael Arrington
Everyone
,
More
,
Wants
Everything's mobile these days. Let's go mo-bile! But really, that's just an IQ test. When you see bold new startups with nothing but a desktop strategy, you know they just don't get it, and you move on.
Michael Arrington
See
,
Move On
,
Desktop
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