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Michael Arrington 🏴☠️
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Michael Arrington 🏴☠️
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Founder of TechCrunch, CrunchBase and Arrington Capital. Be Excellent To Each Other. 🚀🌕
- Just passed on a deal I was almost to yes on because the CEO was rude to our waiter.
- A friend of a friend at Google interviewed at Facebook right as the virus hit. Accepted new job in March. Didn’t quit old job. Apparently does both jobs at home in 55 hours/week. Neither company knows yet. Might have reversed the co’s, not sure. I have so many thoughts on this.
- Good friend in town for Seattle, having dinner with him tonight and he sends me this. God, people are sick. And I don’t mean covid
- When a large company calls for regulation, what they are really requesting are regulatory costs that serve as barriers to entry, protecting them from upstart competitors. It means nothing else. Ever.
- This is incitement of violence, glorifying violence and it’s the former CEO of Twitter. And, I thought, an old friend. I’m stunned.
- You don't become a $3T company by only selling people stuff once.
- XRP is the best performing major crypto asset over 90 days. XRP is the best performing major crypto asset over 180 days. XRP is the best performing major crypto asset over 1 year. XRP is the best performing major crypto asset over 3 years (except for Tron).
- I am a long time investor in and champion of @coinbase. Something that has to be said though - this hack - which includes home addresses and account balances - will lead to people dying. It probably has already. The human cost, denominated in misery, is much larger than the $400m
- Met someone today from Philippines. Their job is to transcribe audio and video files from a major venture backed startup that claims to use AI to do it.
- Just returned from a trip to Miami. The positivity and energy are off the charts. Feels like Silicon Valley in the mid 90s or 2005 when I started TechCrunch. The contrast to SF/Seattle is stark. Thank you, Miami, for the very warm reception. Life felt normal again.
- Its so interesting that car dealerships don't really want to sell new cars for cash any more. They are laser focused on the financing option and get visibly frustrated when you say you just want to give them money and get a car and that's the whole transaction.
- I passed on the first round of Doordash. $50k into that round is apparently worth $80m now. That’ll keep me humble.
