While you might be correct, I think when you have these interconnected enterprises, it's nearly impossible to say whose contribution is more important. For all

While you might be correct, I think when you have these interconnected enterprises, it's nearly impossible to say whose contribution is more important. For all you or I know it may have been Calacanis who put in 100% of the effort for the conference, and Arrington did nothing other than bestow the TC brand. Also for all you and I know, it may be that the conference vastly increased the readership of TC, in which case you could make a pretty good case that Calacanis was screwed. The whole thing could even have been financed by Calacanis. It's impossible to know. I'm not saying that's the case or not, I'm saying that it's impossible to look at it from the outside and say one person is responsible for the success or failure.