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I agree that this seems to mostly be serving TechCrunch's own interests. However, is it really plausible for it to work any other way, in the end? Building pla

I agree that this seems to mostly be serving TechCrunch's own interests. However, is it really plausible for it to work any other way, in the end? Building plans around the voluntary cooperation of a bunch of people who would gain at least short-term benefit by defecting, combined with the "not getting the genie back in the bottle" nature of public information, is going to be an unstable equilibrium at best. All it takes are one or two influental people who are willing to take the social reputation hit from not playing along to bring the whole thing down. If not TechCrunch, someone else eventually. Lamentable, yet likely inevitable.

Retric 17y ago
If TechCruch is always going to defect then leaving them out of the loop is probably a good idea. They are worth less publicity than the non defectors combined so telling them is a bad idea. I think TechCruch has been slowly failing for a while, and this is going to hurt them more than you might think.
Retric 17y ago
If TechCruch is always going to defect then leaving them out of the loop is probably a good idea. They are worth less publicity than the non defectors combined so telling them is a bad idea. I think TechCruch has been slowly becoming less relevant for a while, and this is a larger risk than you might think. Still they want to become CNN, or at least make that much profit, and that means they have to leave their niche behind.