Michael Arrington
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J. Michael Arrington is serial entrepreneur (see below) and the maintainer of TechCrunch, a popular blog covering the Silicon Valley and wider United States technology start-up community.
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[edit] Early life
Growing up in California and Surrey, England, he attended UC Berkeley, but transferred to Claremont McKenna College, a college near Los Angeles after his Freshmen year, with a major in economics.[1] After college he went on to law school at Stanford in 1992, and graduated in 1995. [1]
[edit] Career
[edit] Early employment history
Early career employment history:
- O'Melveny & Myers - Corporate attorney. A law firm.
- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati - Corporate attorney. A law firm.
- RealNames - Sales and business development. An internet start-up.
[edit] Entrepreneurial endeavors
- Achex - Co-founder: Achex was sold to First Data Corp for $32 million and is now the back end of Western Union online.
- Zip.ca - Co-founder and operations manager: A Canadian mail-order DVD rental business.
- Pool.com - Co-founder and operations manager: A Canadian domain name reseller.
- Razorgator - Chief operating officer and later consultant: An online concert ticket merchant.
- Edgeio - Founder and significant shareholder: A vertical-blog based classifieds advertisement business.
[edit] See also
- TechCrunch
- edgeio
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
- Nick Gonzalez
