Michael Arrington

He is the Co-editor and founder of the Blog known as TechCrunch which its basic synopsis is I covering Silicon Valley’s technological start-up communities. It explored a lot of what we know in the United States in terms of technology while not disinclining people from outside countries.

He is widely considered by big name magazines like Forbes and Wired to be one of the most powerful techie men found on the Internet.

In the year 2008 was chosen as Time Magazine’s most influential person in the entire world, not just the year, but the entire world.

Who he is

He grew up with aspirations to be in the law business as more of a corporate “lawyer” of sorts, he did exactly that after attending Stanford Law School. He would practice law for a great many years before he decided it was time to make a change in his life, so he stopped practicing law and moved on.

He would start a company called Achex, a company that specialized in online payments to individuals, he sold that company to a place called First Data Corp. making at least thirty two million dollars.

He’s also known as one of the co-founders of the website pool.com where he was the highest officer in charge. Even while being in charge he would also go onto be on the board of directors for Flodera, a software that helped organize data with a tool.

The Gem

The thing that would bring him to fame would be TechCrunch, this blog covered all the internet startups as well as any news that would be covered from a technological standpoint in the twenty first century. Some would call it for Nerds but it actually was some of the most influential pieces around, covering new technologies and getting hundreds of thousands of viewers every day.