TechCrunch

“First of all, I'm based in Tel Aviv. I've been based in Tel Aviv for quite a while. I do think Dubai is amazing, and the UAE, and if you haven't been, you should visit. Yeah, I know that, that was not exactly accurate, and maybe one day, the guys at TechCrunch…”

“And with that proof of concept I raised a seed round of a 5.2 million dollars. I announced it as a 6.5 because I wanted to get into TechCrunch. I combined the pre-seed and the seed together. But eventually TechCrunch did not cover us.”

“You know, a lot of the other magazines, stuff like Wired, Scientific American, Things like TechCrunch, they've really fallen. They've really been captured. They've been politicized. They're no longer interested. They no longer love the entrepreneurs. They just…”

“You know, two of my companies, I did cold outreach to TechCrunch editors, and I was like, hey, you know, on a Twitter DM, and was like, there's a company fundraising, let me know if you want to talk to them about a fundraise announcement. They don't even do a …”

“Like, if you talk to a bunch of YC founders or whoever it is, like, what is their goal? It really is to tell all their friends that they raised ten million dollars and show their parents they got a headline on TechCrunch. Like, that is their goal.”

“Both, I think Ben Horowitz and the CEO of ElevenX immediately came out the next day and was like, this article's a flat out lie.”

“Now it's become basically like the Daily Mail or like the New York Post where they're just putting out like just hit pieces that are completely fabricated.”

“So you should not talk about, you know, extraneous things like how many employees your startup has or what fundraising round you're at, or you were featured on tech crunch. If you're working with influencers, they really don't care about any of this stuff. The…”

“The posters are the experts now.”

“They are dying a slow death.”

“TechCrunch announcing an AI agent startup slash dev slash agents raised a massive fifty six million dollar seed round at five hundred million dollar valuation.”

“And to Margot at TechCrunch you can write what you want about me, you can say what you will about us, but we're not going to stop, so sorry.”

“Business reporter at Bloomberg, Globe and Mail, BetaKit, TechCrunch, like what enterprise deals are you signing with specific industries? How many units are you moving? How much money you're making? Logistically, can you handle this stuff? Like that, that is t…”

“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…”

“So yeah, now, now we just focus on, on like effectively like storytelling to like retailers. So more than like a TechCrunch article, like we were, I saw we were on the cover of some like retail distribution magazine that no one outside the industry has ever se…”

“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.”

“I also think not all PR people are going to agree with this, but I do think funding rounds, you can always get a reporter to cover if you go about it the right way.”

“Just a couple of weeks ago, TechCrunch decided they no longer accept op-eds”

“Getting in TechCrunch Is about getting in front of your co-founder friends and feeling good that you've got your company covered in TechCrunch. Where, where you really want to be getting covered is in the kind of publications that your prospective customers ar…”

“And I let Arrington at TechCrunch know like, Hey, Facebook's opening up to at Microsoft and at corporate emails in the morning. I think you should write about it and get and talk about it. Cause Facebook wasn't going to do any press. And he wrote about it that…”

“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…”

“We have videos that have gotten anywhere between 250,000 views to up to a million views, and it's driven a lot of really cool results for founders, ranging from Snoop Dogg finding out about one of the founders' products and trying it out, To founders raising e…”

“TechCrunch estimates that this app has been downloaded Eleven million times already across iOS and Android, and generated over twenty-two million dollars in revenue since August, twenty-twenty-two.”

“And then the people who wrote the article, All went to like the fanciest schools I've ever heard of. And you know, Ivy leagues and wonderful private high schools and these kinds of things.”

“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.”

“Among Eventbrite's first customers was the tech blog, TechCrunch, and the event that would ultimately grow into TechCrunch Disrupt.”

“Every time we would, you know, we'd have, like, Nathan would be on TV, or, like, he would get, like, a TechCrunch article, and all of a sudden we would have, like, 80 times the demand for one hour that we had before”

“A thirty-five million dollar transaction the fund that acquired it, raised money, acquired Thrivecart as part of the deal, announced as a raise.”

“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…”

“Those are people contributing to the learning model. That's just dated because that's an old TechCrunch article. But yeah, that's now over 2.1 million.”

“I think there's a lot of value, especially for something like what you're doing, because you're going to have the seed community of people who are like founder type people who probably listen to the pod. They know you, or they know about the hustle and they tr…”

“I paid him 5000 dollars to get us into TechCrunch, basically.”

“If you Google amp push and McKinsey, there's an article by tech crunch, which describes amp push as the McKinsey of growth marketing. And I literally like before the call with the reporter, I was like, Many people are calling us the McKinsey of growth and mark…”

“I mean, I got him to profile Adobe sign echo sign the day we launched, and that's still probably got us. 20% of our customers our first year.”

“Most Series A fundraisers fail.”

“And they laid off 900 people December first, 3000 people on March eighth, according to TechCrunch.”

“TechCrunch covered it, and we got a couple hundred People who signed up on the mailing list. And so we actually took that mailing list and went out and raised a seed round of funding. And then we spent the next three months building and launching to launch the…”

“We actually did not disclose any valuation to them and said that we cannot disclose but they guessed, which was roughly around the number.”

“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…”

“Well, we're fortunate that because we had some high-profile investors in that first round when we landed that first round of investment, we made, we announced it we got some TechCrunch coverage, and we were pretty stoked about that, and we ended up with a wait…”

“The VC podcasts that are out there, the tech crunches of the world, which are fascinating stories, but they're just stories and they're so far out of reach and so far out of context that they just don't really do anything for me.”

“And so we got off stage, and by the end of the day, we had about 2000 pre-orders.”

“Before people cared about their Crunchbase profile, TechCrunch just built the profiles on Crunchbase. With media reports and so on and so forth, and then after a while, people cared about their profile, and so they tried to keep it updated.”

“And so now, seven years later, SalesLoft has over 400 employees, has raised over seventy-five million dollars of venture capital, and in the next two years, if not sooner, my prediction is that they will be a unicorn that you'll be able to read about on TechCr…”

“We, so we built our app directory before we built the product. Before we launched in TechCrunch, that whole story was, ah, pre, that, we had been working on Zapier for about five months, I think, at that point. The very first thing we did when we sat down was …”

“We ended up with a waiting list of 50,000 people before we launched.”

“PR is a good forcing function for the CEO and the rest of the team to really figure out what is your story. And your story is very, very important because the story is the company and it doesn't just help you get the article in TechCrunch or The New Yorker, bo…”

“It was actually around the same time I wrote a TechCrunch article, and I coined this term O to O, online to offline.”

“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…”

“This is exactly what you should expect if you get on TechCrunch or any press. It goes straight up, and it's really exciting that day, and then it goes straight back down the next day. And, but at least settles a little bit higher.”

“You'll anything that a VC touches or like tech crunch, which they basically use to lobby, they'll articulate and say, yeah, you want a 12 month payback period. Why? Well, if you don't focus on getting your money back instantly, guess whose money you then need …”

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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…”

“So we power spoken editions for about 30 properties or so ranging Wired, Reuters, Huffington Post, Bustle, Playboy, Skiff, Smashable, TechCrunch those are just the ones that pop off the top of my head.”

“Getting written about on TechCrunch doesn't happen unless you have like a lot of investment or you have some really exciting new technology.”

“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.”

“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 …”