Michael Arrington’s Enterprise

Michael Arrington

J. Michael Arrington was born on March 13, 1970 in Orange, California. His growing up years was spent in both California and Surrey, England. He started college at UC Berkeley but later transferred to Claremont McKenna College located in Los Angeles. From there he earned his degree in Economics in 1992 and proceeded straight to Stanford Law School from which he graduated on 1995. He worked as a corporate attorney at O’Melveny and Myers &Wilson Sonsini handling the accounts of technological companies such as Idealab, Netscape, Pixar, Apple and several other start-up, venture funds, and investment banks.

Serial Entrepreneur

Arrington later left the law firm in order to join a start-up and ran development sales and business. He became responsible for a series of enterprise. Unfortunately, RealNames petition to be public was not granted and was eventually liquidated. He then co-founded Achex but a year after sold it to First Data Corporation for $32M in US Dollars. Achex is currently the back end of Western Union online. After which he took an operational role for a new establishment in London backed up by Carlyle.

Later on, he co-founded two other companies namely Zip.ca, Pool.com in Canada and had a stint as the chief operating officer at Razorgator while doing consultancies for other companies such as Snapnames and Verisign. Arrington is also a founder and one of the directors in Edgeio.

In June 11, 2005, the weblog TechCrunch was developed. The site has been profiling, reviewing, and promoting and the latest products in the internet and old or new companies having the need to create an impact in the cultural and/or commercial aspects.

Along with Erick Schonfeld, Arrington co-maintains TechCrunch. A website of blogs that covers the Silicon Valley and an even wider start-up technological community in the United States of America, he is deemed to be one of the most powerful personalities in the internet.

However, allegations were hurled toward the company when Facebook Chat was launched on March. It is said to be a “walled-garden” with a protocol that excludes other IM services such as AIM and MSN onsite, and does not supply APIs to developers.

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