Michael Arrington

J. Michael Arrington ( born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is the founder and former chief editor of TechCrunch, a blog reporting on Silicon Valley companies ( start-ups), as well as the more technological field of the United States and the world. Magazines such as Wired and Forbes designated Arrington as one of the most powerful people of the internet. In 2008 he was the TIME magazine resulted in a list to be one of the most influential people in the world.

Biography

Arrington grew up in California and Surrey, England. He attended the University of California, Berkeley and received his degree at Claremont McKenna College with a major in economics. Arrington then went to 1995 on the Stanford Law School. He worked in the corporate and capital markets law at O'Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Arrington was co-founder of AChex, an Internet payment company, which was sold for 32 million U.S. dollars to First Data and now represents the backend of the online platform of Western Union. He was also co-founder of Zip.ca and Pool.com, and the COO of Razorgator, and founder of Edgeio. Arrington is also a member of the Board of Directors of the startups FolderA, which is a software as a service organization tool. In October 2010, he was much talked about, as he had registered on Facebook with a known e- mail address by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and thus found a vulnerability in this social network.

In September 2011, Arrington left TechCrunch editor in chief in dispute and announced that he would take care of his new venture fund Crunch Fund. At the same time he continues to write as a freelance blogger in his new blog Uncrunched.