• Michael Arrington is founder of the popular blog, TechCrunch, and a serial entrepreneur.

• 1. Born: March 13, 1970 in Orange, California
  2. Editor of TechCrunch
  3. Education: Claremont McKenna College
  4. 1995: Graduated from Stanford Law School Graduate
  5. Forbes magazine has named him one of the most powerful people on the Internet
  6. Time magazine selected him as one of the most influential people in the world in 2008

• Taking a Break

  Arrington announced on January 28, 2009, that he would be temporarily retiring from blogging through the month of February after an incident at the DLD Conference in Munich, Germany resulted in Arrington being spat on. He believed the incident was "one step away from something far more violent." Arrington had received death threats made against himself and his family in the past and decided that it was time to reassess his options.TechCrunch: Some Things Need To Change

  Arrington returned to TechCrunch in March 2009.

• Quote

  "I look at entrepreneurs as, in a sense, modern-day pirates. They tend to be bright individuals, although sometimes they're uneducated and they become stars based purely on will and intelligence. But they tend to walk away from high-paying jobs that help them support their family and they're not in a position where there's a lot of risk. And something drives them to walk away from that to start a company, just to see if they can. They're so passionate about the idea, they just have to see if they can do it. But they actually do something that economists would call insane, which is that they attach utility to risk instead of the other way around." - Portfolio.com: Michael Arrington

  "I write about technology startups and news. In any sane world that shouldn’t make me someone who has to deal with death threats and being spat on."TechCrunch: Some Things Need To Change

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