TechCrunch, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Guy Raz 16Jon Stein 10Jennifer Fitzgerald 4Oliver Kharraz 2Michael Dubin 2Melanie Perkins 2Ben Chestnut 2Tyler Haney 1Tim Ferriss 1Sam Yam 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where TechCrunch comes up
Bobbie: Laura Modi. How a Baby Formula Startup Took Market Share From Two Industry Giants
- ▶ 48:57 Laura Modi We had gotten some media attention on, on TechCrunch, and, you know, our launch of bringing this, this formula to market created some stir, and our belief is it probably made its way to the FDA, and FDA's thought, this looks like another…
Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018)
- ▶ 30:16 Michael Dubin And we talked to all the usual suspects, the tech crunches of the world, the Bloombergs,
(July 2021) Ben Chestnut: From Side Business to $12 Billion – The Accidental Triumph of Mailchimp
- ▶ 42:56 Ben Chestnut Um, and I went and talked about it, and it got on TechCrunch.
Groupon and Descript: Andrew Mason
- ▶ 53:07 Andrew Mason Um, so I, like, I would occasionally do things that were kind of quirky, like, I remember going to present at a TechCrunch
Wirecutter: Brian Lam
Twitch: Emmett Shear
- ▶ 16:07 Emmett Shear We got, uh, we got coverage on TechCrunch.
WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
- ▶ 1:01:05 Matt Mullenweg Blogs like TechCrunch, which started with just one guy blogging,
Discord: Jason Citron
- ▶ 18:44 Jason Citron TechCrunch covered it, and we got a couple hundred
Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut
- ▶ 42:29 Ben Chestnut Um, and I went and talked about it, and it got on TechCrunch.
Casper: Philip Krim
- ▶ 21:51 Philip Krim And we, we were in a startup accelerator, you know, everyone's reading TechCrunch every day and reading about the, you know, massive amounts of money all these companies were raising.
Policygenius: Jennifer Fitzgerald
- ▶ 37:47 Jennifer Fitzgerald We've read, uh, a dozen TechCrunch articles about companies raising big seed in Series A rounds. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:28 Jennifer Fitzgerald Uh, I think I heard from another founder, maybe some TechCrunch article that most, uh, startups don't die by homicide.
Canva: Melanie Perkins (2019)
- ▶ 31:12 Melanie Perkins Well, we're fortunate that because we had some high-profile investors in that first round, um, when we landed that first round of investment, we made, we announced it, um, we got some TechCrunch coverage, and we were pretty stoked about…
Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam
- ▶ 23:13 Sam Yam Yeah, I, I would code, design, launch, and this was during the time, too, where TechCrunch Disrupt was a thing, so you had this idea that if you got a business through, and you could launch on stage, you
- ▶ 39:39 Jack Conte Yeah, I wanted Sam to do it, and he would, he had just, he was right about to launch this new project, and he had gotten a TechCrunch article, and he was, uh, it was, it was about to come out, so he said, like, hey, I can't meet till…
Author and Podcaster: Tim Ferriss
- ▶ 57:45 Tim Ferriss Tech meme, tech crunch, etc.
Zocdoc: Oliver Kharraz
Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Fitbit: James Park
Outdoor Voices: Tyler Haney
- ▶ 41:35 Tyler Haney Reading, and TechCrunch, and through asking people, and, and people who had raised money, etc.
Canva: Melanie Perkins
- ▶ 30:48 Melanie Perkins Well, we're fortunate that because we had some high-profile investors in that first round, um, when we landed that first round of investment, we made, we announced it, um, we got some TechCrunch coverage, and we were pretty stoked about…
Live Episode! Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin
- ▶ 30:27 Michael Dubin Yeah, so we had done a round of press, um, you know, to announce our million dollar, uh, seed round, and we talked to all the usual suspects, the tech crunches of the world, the Bloombergs,
Betterment: Jon Stein
- ▶ 25:07 Jon Stein And I think Anthony said, hey, we could apply for TechCrunch. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:21 Jon Stein And TechCrunch was hosting their first ever Disrupt Conference in New York City the following spring, May of, of, of, and I thought, that's our launch date.
- ▶ 25:51 Jon Stein So let me just set the context leading up to TechCrunch. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:30 Guy Raz When we come back, we'll find out exactly how John did at TechCrunch.
- ▶ 29:56 Guy Raz So it's May of 2010, and John Stein and his small team at Betterment are about to pitch at TechCrunch. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:58 Guy Raz But pretty quickly after TechCrunch, were you, were you approached by actual people who, you know, who wanted to invest in your business? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:58 Jon Stein I said when we launched at TechCrunch on stage, if we're successful, we're gonna have
Minted: Mariam Naficy
- ▶ 29:48 Mariam Naficy We had a really negative article from TechCrunch.