28 Michael Arrington Quotes for You to Enjoy

Michael Arrington

American Businessman

Born: Mar 13, 1970

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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

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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

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Sometimes I have so many financial conflicts of interest that I can't even keep them straight. Michael Arrington

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

I love talking about taxes. Michael Arrington

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Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes. Michael Arrington

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I want something completely new and different to happen, and lots of it. Stuff that makes us change the way we think about a market or the world. Something that inspires a new generation of crazy startups doing crazy things. Michael Arrington

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Women in my world are respected as much as men. Michael Arrington

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We have to start encouraging women to get into math and science early on in life... But to just say TechCrunch is perpetuating the problem because there aren't enough women speakers at our events is just a way to get attention and not solve the problem. So do we want to solve the problem, or do we want to just pick on me? Michael Arrington

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I'm worried about privacy - the companies out there gathering data on us, the stuff we do on Twitter, the publicly scrapeable stuff on Facebook. It's amazing how much data there is out there on us. I'm worried that it can be abused and will be abused. Michael Arrington

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The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs. Michael Arrington

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For the most part, I've sat on the sidelines over the years during the endless debates about how we need to do more to encourage more women to start companies. Michael Arrington

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Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences. Michael Arrington

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I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure. Michael Arrington

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Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts. Michael Arrington

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Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump. Michael Arrington

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The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else. Michael Arrington

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