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Michael Arrington is an American blogger, entrepreneur and venture capitalist born in 1970. After working as a lawyer, in 2004 he set up TechCrunch, a technology blog focused on internet startups. He sold the business to AOL in 2010. He then started the CrunchFund series of venture funds, which have funded over 100 startups.

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Dec 2013

Vanity Fair article

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michael-arrington-vanity-fairThe magazine profiles Arrington including a Berkeley talk where he discusses women in tech, how TechCrunch has a female CEO and almost half its employees are female, how the blog started, and Allen’s sexual assault allegations against him. Arrington:

Women in my world are respected as much as men.

12 Sep, 2011

Officially out

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AOL announces that Arrington is officially out of the blog. Arrington:

It’s no longer a good situation for me to stay at TechCrunch. [It’s] a sad day for me.

AOL spokeswoman:

We love Mike and it was the right, amicable decision that we came to together. We’re super excited about our relationship with him going forward.

12 May, 2008

TIME 100

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michael-arrington-time-100Huffington profiles Arrington for the magazine:

[He] is the quintessential blogger: intense, passionate, consumed with his subject, opinionated, sleep-deprived, forward-thinking, easy to irritate and apt to air his grudges in public.

Jan 1999

Realnames Corp.

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Arrington joins the internet keyword naming and navigation company as general counsel and VP for business development.

Aug 1997

Corporate attorney

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Arrington joins the Silicon Valley firms Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and O’Melveny & Myers. His clients include idealab, Netscape, Pixar, Apple, and a number of startups, venture funds and investment banks. He says he was

… an exceptionally average attorney.

1989

Enrols at Claremont-McKenna

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Arrington enrols at the private liberal arts college east of L.A. A friend who attended the college with him says he had an entrepreneurial bent in college, and took over a recycling scheme at the dorm building:

He’s sort of an opportunist by nature.