Michael Arrington

Guide Note

Michael Arrington is founder of the popular blog, TechCrunch, and a serial entrepreneur. Forbes magazine has named him one of the most powerful people on the Internet. Time magazine selected him as one of the most influential people in the world in 2008. A graduate of Claremont McKenna College Arrington went on to graduate from Stanford Law School in 1995.

Fast Facts

1. Born: March 13, 1970 in Orange, California
2. Editor of TechCrunch
3. 1995: Graduated from Stanford Law School

Quote

"I look at entrepreneurs as, in a sense, modern-day pirates. They tend to be bright individuals, although sometimes they're uneducated and they become stars based purely on will and intelligence. But they tend to walk away from high-paying jobs that help them support their family and they're not in a position where there's a lot of risk. And something drives them to walk away from that to start a company, just to see if they can. They're so passionate about the idea, they just have to see if they can do it. But they actually do something that economists would call insane, which is that they attach utility to risk instead of the other way around." - Michael Arrington