Agreed. This really was the "final straw" for me in regards to respecting Techcrunch. You can't claim to exist as a resource for startups when your founder does

Agreed. This really was the "final straw" for me in regards to respecting Techcrunch. You can't claim to exist as a resource for startups when your founder does something like this. I'll try to avoid them as best I can from now on, not that it means much. I was fine with Techcrunch's increased coverage on BigCos and decreased coverage on startups -- they need to pay the bills, and juicy popular companies get more views than tiny startups. But this is too far. I never assumed that Techcrunch was a strong resource for entrepreneurs, but now they'll throw them under the bus for a blog post.