TechCrunch is celebrating twenty years as a key presence in the tech media industry. Having personally been part of the publication for half of that time, I can confidently say that my years at TechCrunch have marked the most rewarding period of my professional life, even measured against earlier stints at industry giants like Time Inc., Dow Jones, and Reuters.
What makes TechCrunch special isn’t merely its longevity—remarkable in itself—but rather the vibrant, quirky, and determined culture within the organization. The team here wears many hats, tackling stories from multiple angles and differing roles, an approach you won’t find in typical media outlets. It’s an environment where curiosity thrives, deep commitment to excellence is commonplace, and challenging the status quo is not only permitted but expected.
My decade at TechCrunch has allowed me extraordinary access: conversations with influential thinkers and makers like Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, Lina Khan, Conan O’Brien, Al Gore, and Finland’s former Prime Minister Sanna Marin, among countless others. These dialogues have illuminated how policy decisions, tech innovation, and human ambition reshape our daily lives. Our collective efforts have brought clarity and insight to complex intersections of industry and public interest.
We’ve reported these stories from every imaginable setting—home offices, bustling cafés, corporate suites—and from cities across the globe. From Lisbon, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, and Davos to far-flung locales like Lagos, Nairobi, Hong Kong, and Hangzhou, TechCrunch reporters have traveled the world to meet groundbreaking entrepreneurs, innovators who have risen and sometimes fallen spectacularly, and tech pioneers whose products changed entire industries, for better or worse.
Over the years, TechCrunch has documented emerging industries from their infancy through explosive growth and occasionally into decline. We’ve chronicled two-person startups evolving into trillion-dollar enterprises and shone a critical spotlight on so-called innovative breakthroughs that ultimately went nowhere.
Today, despite challenging times within the media landscape, TechCrunch still shapes conversations around technology’s biggest developments. Recent interviews with high-profile figures—like the Greek prime minister and San Francisco’s mayor—alongside insightful reportage into the leading trends in venture capital, cybersecurity, AI, and transportation, confirm our voice as essential and authoritative.
After two decades, we remain committed both to breaking big stories and holding power accountable, driven by our mission to discover and highlight what matters rather than what’s merely trending. TechCrunch has survived and thrived through this unwavering purpose and thanks to those who’ve supported us from the beginning: founder Michael Arrington, parent organizations such as our current steward Regent, and the ever-evolving, ever-growing community surrounding us.
Here’s to the valuable perspective that twenty years in the trenches grants us, and here’s to another twenty years of asking tough questions, spotting trends before they break into mainstream consciousness, and collaborating with colleagues whose dedication makes even our most challenging days worthwhile.
We thank everyone who has been part of this phenomenal journey—the readers, the interviewees, the critics, the supporters. You have built TechCrunch into a trusted, pivotal resource for those eager to understand not just where technology is today but also where it’s headed tomorrow.
