Twenty years strong: a love letter to TechCrunch

Twenty years strong: a love letter to TechCrunch

TechCrunch is turning 20. I’ve been here half that time. I worked previously at numerous major media properties, including Time Inc, Dow Jones, and Reuters; this has been the best job of my life, which is maybe why the time has gone so fast. There’s nothing like the culture here. Contrarian, smart, hilarious, and hard-working….

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Twenty years strong: a love letter to TechCrunch

Twenty years strong: a love letter to TechCrunch

TechCrunch is turning 20. I’ve been here half that time. I worked previously at numerous major media properties, including Time Inc, Dow Jones, and Reuters; this has been the best job of my life, which is maybe why the time has gone so fast. There’s nothing like the culture here. Contrarian, smart, hilarious, and hard-working….

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Europe, we’re not leaving. Period.

Europe, we’re not leaving. Period.

There are some headlines making the rounds claiming that TechCrunch is “pulling out of Europe” and shuttering its coverage of European startups. This is flat-out wrong. It misrepresents who we are, what we do, and — most of all — what we believe. The recent changes at TechCrunch are not about retreat. They are about…

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Why are Elon Musk and Donald Trump fighting?

Why are Elon Musk and Donald Trump fighting?

President Donald Trump and his biggest political supporter Elon Musk are breaking up in the most public and 21st century way — via their own social networks. And while many predicted the Trump-Musk pair-up would eventually sour, it’s still worth asking and trying to answer, “How did we get here?” Until recently, Musk has been…

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Bonfire’s new software lets users build their own social communities, free from platform control

Bonfire’s new software lets users build their own social communities, free from platform control

Bonfire Social, a new framework for building communities on the open social web, launched on Thursday during the FediForum online conference. While Bonfire Social is a federated app, meaning it’s powered by the same underlying protocol as Mastodon (ActivityPub), it’s designed to be more modular and more customizable. That means communities on Bonfire have more…

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