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By the way, yes they do. Every post Arrington will say he or someone at TC is an investor. Not that it's too regular.
by brackin 15y ago
By the way, yes they do. Every post Arrington will say he or someone at TC is an investor. Not that it's too regular.
- tatsuke95 15y agoAre you sure about this? "Every post" is a strong statement. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Mr. Arrington is an implicit investor in YC, through the Angel Fund, and Techcrunch gave the YC startups a ton of coverage lately. The few articles that I read in the early going made no reference to this fact.
- brackin 15y agoYC startups have been given lots of press for years. You may be right, I don't know the specifics of the terms but YC startups have always had a lot of coverage because they're YC startups. I've seen far more bias from the mainstream press tech reporters towards certain startups. All these journalists seem to be hired by a number of startups. Seems like some are just reporting to help their career.
- JabavuAdams 15y agoThat's not good enough. That fact that it's accepted is a problem.
- ig1 15y agoNo they don't, and even if they wanted to they can't without it causing further problem (because of startups being in stealth, the disclosure itself giving favourable coverage to the startup). I wrote an article about it here: http://blog.imranghory.org/michael-arringtons-unsolvable-conflict-of-int http://blog.imranghory.org/michael-arringtons-unsolvable-con...