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Arrington is considered a VC now? Yikes.
by mvkel 13y ago
Arrington is considered a VC now? Yikes.
- dalke 13y agoAccording to Wikipedia's article: "In 2011, Arrington founded a venture capital firm called CrunchFund along with M.G. Siegler and Patrick Gallaghar." It seems to me that being a partner at a venture capital firm makes someone a VC. Why do you think otherwise? BTW, from CNN: "CrunchFund itself has largely flown-under the radar. It doesn't even have a website."
- hkmurakami 13y agoand iirc m.g.Siegler is now at Google ventures
- nknighthb 13y agoHeh, "under the radar" is an interesting way of looking at it. They might not make a lot of noise now, but CrunchFund was the trigger for several days of utter and very public chaos at AOL/TechCrunch when it launched, leading to Arrington being fired because of AOL's own choices and disclaimer of journalistic ethics, but not really, but oh maybe really, but no, but yes, but now he's back, and AOL still doesn't know WTF they're doing...
- nknighthb 13y ago"Considered"? "Now"? He launched a VC fund in 2011. Are there other criteria to be met for being considered a VC?
- solistice 13y agoI'm sure there is a boy scout badge you get to make it official. On the other hand, I don't think it changes the meaning of the article the least bit if we exchange Arrington with any of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_venture_capital_firms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_venture_capital_firms.
- kmfrk 13y agoHe's a huge pioneer in the field of conflicts of journalistic interest. :)
- wpietri 13y agoIt is times like this that I wish I could exchange HN karma for more upvote power.