TechCrunch

“TechCrunch never raised a penny. Ever.”

“A lot of entrepreneurs think that their product launch is news, and a lot of the time I have to sit down and tell them, that's not news. Companies are launching every day. There's no reason why yours is special.”

“It's fun to get the tech crunch article, but in a lot of ways it doesn't really matter. It's like cool to show your friends at home, but it almost has no impact on your business.”

“And I don't think TechCrunch or anyone like TechCrunch Makes or breaks a startup. I think that's a slight myth.”

“Beeple was covered everywhere. Like, because of my journalist background, we got in anywhere from CNN to Next Web, TechCrunch, obviously Fast Company magazine. Like, we were, at one point, we were everywhere for about two days, and I can tell you it made very …”

“Is I think the biggest impact my coverage made on a startup was often that we would, like my coverage would either lead to the first interest the startup had from investors or from mainstream media.”

“I know Gary Tan and Alexis Ohanian from our investors at Initialize, they've been very, very good in helping us build our brand. They brought on Kim Mai Cutler onto their team from TechCrunch, and she's been extremely helpful in actually coaching us through ho…”

“There's this thinking in the valley that there's one right way to do a startup. That you launch it on TechCrunch, you have a press cycle, you network at all these parties, but really there's so many different ways of doing it. There's this whole world of incre…”

“At the C and Series A, and even sometimes Series B, these companies may not even have been written about in TechCrunch. They don't even know who they are. So I very strongly believe in proprietary deal flow at the earlier stages of the stack.”

“I think that the best people out there just don't give a damn about your VC. They're probably not reading Hacker News. They probably don't care about TechCrunch.”

“We published an annual review on the amount of series A funding that went to female founders in 2014. And, you know, since then we've seen Crunchbase, TechCrunch, and a host of other journalists in the tech industry really follow suit in terms of recognizing t…”

“A lot of people, particularly around their early financings, like to go tell the world about it. It's validation. If nothing else, it's nice to have your mom read about you in TechCrunch. But the truth is, that does almost no value. It adds no value to your co…”

“If you're able to get something on TechCrunch, even if it wasn't your, you know, core consumer possibility, then very quickly tell other publications that are more, that feel more insecure than TechCrunch, like editors and journalists, and the link to TechCrun…”

“If you go and you watch the TechCrunch pitch, there's a judge at the end of it, and he asked, what's your vision? And I was like, our vision is to run the internet.”

“As much as I am willing to be contrarian, I'm not willing to invest in something that others are not going to fund. So I need to find, it's a fine line, but I need to find something That perhaps is not mainstream, perhaps is not and yet a headline in TechCrunc…”

“He used to call me up at Eventbrite and scream at me, like, for, you know, he had a big rivalry with TechCrunch, And when we would ticket things for TechCrunch, he would get really angry and like, just call me up and scream at me for doing that.”

“Our first customers came from, ah, and the day we launched WISE was when the TechCrunch Blog post went up, and our TechCrunch, first TechCrunch interview happened, and I remember it, and then we, the post went out, and then you saw the first customer that we d…”