Why We Sold TechCrunch To AOL, And Where We Go From Here
TechCrunch, Sep. 28, 2010
“So how did all this happen? And what happens to TechCrunch now?” writes Michael Arrington, founder & co-editor of TechCrunch, after yesterday’s AOL acquisition. “The truth is I was tired. But I wasn’t tired of writing, or speaking at events. I was tired of our endless tech problems, our inability to find enough talented engineers who wanted to work, ultimately, on blog and CrunchBase software.”
Arrington also notes one of the most challenging parts of the new deal. “In the end, we’ll probably have to create internal checks to ensure that we aren’t more critical of AOL than we otherwise would be just to prove our editorial independence….You probably won’t see a lot of glowing blog posts about AOL in general. People will quite rightly suspect we’re doing it to please our corporate parent.”
