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Going back to at least 2015, YC was blocking TechCrunch from covering the 500 Startups backed.
by rdlecler1 5y ago
Going back to at least 2015, YC was blocking TechCrunch from covering the 500 Startups backed.
- dang 5y agoThat doesn't sound right to me at all. What is the evidence for this? I'm not part of every conversation at YC of course, but I've been in many, including many where TechCrunch was mentioned, and I never heard anything about "blocking" (that actually sounds absurd to me) or any indication that YC had power over TC. It was the other way around; YC or YC startups were always hoping that TC would cover a story and not always getting what they hoped for.
- rdlecler1 5y agoI was going through 500, and asked why TC never covered 509 Startups demo day (which was sizable and on batch 12), and a senior partner told me this. There was supposed to be some kind of deal to get a TC writer in to meet with a few companies but it never happened. At the same time there was an all out TechCrunch blitz in YC companies.
- dang 5y agoUnless there was specific evidence, I would take that report with a retroactive grain of salt. I'm not saying I know it to be false - just that it doesn't sound like what I've seen at YC.