{"id":674630,"date":"2025-06-12T09:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T06:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/twenty-years-strong-a-love-letter-to-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T09:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T06:10:27","slug":"twenty-years-strong-a-love-letter-to-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/twenty-years-strong-a-love-letter-to-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty years strong: a love letter to TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TechCrunch is turning 20. I\u2019ve been here half that time. I worked previously at numerous major media<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing like the culture here. Contrarian, smart, hilarious, and hard-working. Almost everyone at TC wears multiple hats, as anyone who has worked here will tell you. This isn\u2019t just another media company \u2014 it\u2019s a place where people are curious about everything, everyone cares a crazy amount about the brand (and each other), and where challenging conventional wisdom isn\u2019t just encouraged but expected. <\/p>\n

Over the past decade, I\u2019ve personally had the opportunity to interview some amazing people: Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, Lina Khan, Conan O\u2019Brien, Al Gore, Finland\u2019s Sanna Marin, along with people making defense tech, building consumer giants, and selling their software companies for billions of dollars. My colleagues have collectively talked with thousands more whose impact on our lives is felt daily. From these conversations, we\u2019ve learned \u2014 then explained to our readers \u2014 how technology<\/a>, policy, and human ambition intersect to shape the world.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve done this from our homes, from coffee shops, from offices, but also across the world, to the many places TechCrunch has taken us, from Lisbon, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, and Davos to (nearly) the opposite end of the globe: Lagos, Nairobi, Hong Kong, and Hangzhou. <\/p>\n

Across these cities, we\u2019ve sat down with founders who became superstars and superstars who became prison inmates. We\u2019ve watched boring technologies take over the world and celebrated technologies that devolved into dumpster fires.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve seen entire industries born, mature, and sometimes wither. We\u2019ve watched two-person startups become trillion-dollar companies. We\u2019ve covered business innovations. We\u2019ve reported on breakthroughs that changed everything. We\u2019ve also covered \u201cbreakthroughs\u201d that amounted to bupkis.<\/p>\n

And we\u2019re still here. In recent weeks alone, TC has sat down with the prime minister of Greece and the mayor of San Francisco; we\u2019ve also covered big stories involving the most prominent VCs, startup founders, and big tech outfits in the industry. I\u2019d stack our transportation, startup, cybersecurity, and AI coverage against anyone\u2019s.<\/p>\n

These are tough times in media; it\u2019s among the growing number of industries in flux. But to everyone who\u2019s gleefully written about the supposed demise of TC, we\u2019re still here. Twenty years in, we\u2019re still breaking the stories that matter, still holding power accountable, still finding the next big thing before it\u2019s obvious to everyone else.<\/p>\n

Michael Arrington, thank you for creating this brand that became so much more than any of us could have imagined. Thanks to every parent company that\u2019s supported us and helped us keep doing what we love, including, today, Regent. TC\u2019s ownership has changed over the years, but our mission to find the signal in the noise and tell stories that matter remains the same.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s to the perspective that twenty years gives you, and to twenty more years of asking hard questions, helping readers see around corners, and working with people who make even the roughest days worth it. <\/p>\n

To everyone who\u2019s been part of this story \u2014 writers, editors, sources, readers, attendees, speakers, critics, and cheerleaders \u2014 thank you for making TechCrunch what it is, a place for people who want to understand what\u2019s coming next, who firmly believe that tech can make the world better \u2014 and who trust us to call out when it doesn\u2019t. We app<\/a>reciate you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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