HACKER Q&A
📣 1cvmask

When did Techcrunch die for you and why?


And is it because it became a mouthpiece of Crunchbase and a stenagropher of funding rounds for PR firms?


  👤 slater Accepted Answer ✓
When Michael Arrington finally called it quits.

You could also make the case that it's always been a mouthpiece of PR/VC companies, since the beginning.

Edit: Just checked out older TC versions, check out what was hot in 2005:

https://web.archive.org/web/20051124000642/http://www.techcr...


👤 Graffur
It's just less interesting to me now, unfortunately.

👤 gjvc
as soon as I found out about the founder