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8 unusual facts about Michael Arrington


Desktop Tower Defense

Originally, the game was promoted through the web service StumbleUpon, getting further boosts from popular bloggers such as Michael Arrington.

GameCrush

In August 2010, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington revealed that GameCrush had raised $700,000 in an angel round featuring Scott Banister and his wife Cyan, among other angels and VCs.

Goatse Security

On June 14, 2010, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch awarded the group a Crunchie award for public service.

JooJoo

The CrunchPad project was started by Michael Arrington in July 2008, initially aiming for a US$200 tablet, and showed a first prototype (Prototype A) a month later.

On December 10, 2009 Michael Arrington/Techcrunch filed a lawsuit against Fusion Garage in Federal court.

Originally, Fusion Garage was working with Michael Arrington to release it as the CrunchPad, but in November 2009 Fusion Garage informed Arrington it would be selling the product alone.

LAUNCH Conference

Although it is legally unrelated to the TechCrunch40 and TechCrunch50 events, it has been perceived as the natural evolution of those events citing Calacanis' involvement, and then split, from Michael Arrington and the TechCrunch series of events.

Michael Arrington

His other entrepreneurial endeavors include co-founding Zip.ca and Pool.com, acting as chief operating officer for Razorgator, and founding Edgeio.


Wavii

Wavii had received funding from Mitch Kapor, Max Levchin, Dave Morin, Keith Rabois, Benjamin Ling, Joshua Schachter, Scott Banister, CrunchFund, Felicis Ventures, Gil Elbaz, Fritz Lanman, Matt Ocko, Rick Marini, Brandee Barker, Max Ventilla, MG Siegler, and SV Angel.


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