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techcrunch is not a business he can sell. He is too embedded in the site, all his scoops etc are due to his personal contacts. Face it, he is the face of techcr

• InclinedPlane 17y ago
  Sure, I agree with all of that. But the subtext here is the idea that no one with money in the tech industry makes poor or questionable purchasing decisions, and that's nowhere near true. Moreover, techncrunch has a reasonably strong brand now, even if the site completely sold out, switched to a staff of faceless worker drones for content, etc, it'd probably still maintain a high level of traffic for several more years, perhaps more than enough to justify the investment of buying it. Not that I know whether or not techcrunch is being bought, I'm just pointing to a hole in your logic.
• alain94040 17y ago
  Of course Mike can sell if he wants to. I can think of a bunch of media outlets who would love to swallow TC's traffic. The deal would just have to include a transition phase. As the article itself noted, Mike's involvement is already maybe half of what it was two years ago. Think Microsoft and Bill Gates. 10 years ago, it was inconceivable for Bill Gates to ever leave Microsoft. And it happened without major trauma (meaning you can argue that Microsoft is not as good as they used to be, but it didn't tank overnight).