[nameuserc]

Unfortunately this is true. I'm not sure all that many people know where the founder came from, i.e., the type of stuff he was doing before TechCrunch, and the company he worked for - a company responsible for a very large portion of some of the purest douchbaggery to be found anywhere on the web. The lowest of the low. They do some very dirty work. I'd even guess there are "innocent" people working at TC who do not know the history.

I wanted to see TC as some sort of redemption for this guy, a stepping away from the sort of douchebaggery he was doing previously. But, after watching TC for a number of years, it clearly was a progression to an even more potent form of sleaze. If people are using underhanded tactics with TC, then I can only conclude that they've succeeded in attracting the very same type of people which they are themselves (excluding anyone working there who is naive and unaware).

[uid]

what the hell.. this thread is certainly being derailed very quickly.

discredit the facts in the story, not the guy who hired the guy who used to run the site or whatever

[samstave]

"...not the guy who hired the guy who used to run the site or whatever"

That is why we are referring to the DNA of the company...

Meaning that its founder's character sets the tone for the future of the company...

This is fact, as founders hire people whom they believe will carry on the traits they themselves want to instill in the company...

Arrington, while successful, is a farking douchebag.

The whole of techcrunch has followed this from the sensationalism, to the lack of proof/editing, to the very fanboi-ism and game mechanics they have attempted to apply to the stories they write.

I rarely frequent TC - when I do, I find typos and grammar mistakes pretty much in every story I see.

I think the site is a joke, and the egos abound.

Do they get good scoops, sure they do - but they are CONSTANTLY offered excellent opportunity only to fumble and look like fools -- the sad part of that is that too few people actually notice and even fewer hold them to account!

TC is successful - but they really should not be.

[nameuserc]

Of course there are people working at TC who are not douchebags. Just like there are probably people working at Pool who are not douchebags. But these are not the founders the company nor those who are responsible for setting the standards and the course for the company.

[jazzdev]

Maybe good scoops are more important than good spelling and grammar.

[samstave]

That's ridiculous. When you are a tech news publication ostensibly worth millions, I, as a reader, have an expectation of editing and proof reading.

Otherwise I have much less respect for the professionalism of your outfit.

How can I take the authors on that site serious when they themselves can't even bother to read the crap they produce.

[chacham15]

Im sorry, but this is ridiculously unfair. Dont judge a company by what just one person in it has done. Everyone has made mistakes. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

[jlgreco]

That phrase really is not universalizable at all. Where would we all be if nobody called out anybody else for anything?

Consider me voluntarily opted out from that nonsense. Please call me on my crap, you do not have to be perfect yourself to do so.

[sgift]

> Everyone has made mistakes. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

Well, Techcrunch didn't use this principle before writing their little piece yesterday, did they?

You get what you put in.

[aaronbrethorst]

example?