1. Michael Arrington attended the University of California, Berkeley for his freshman year and graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a major in economics.
12 Facts About Michael Arrington
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Michael Arrington went on to Stanford Law School and graduated in 1995.
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Michael Arrington left the practice of law to join RealNames, which failed after raising $100 million.
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Michael Arrington was co-founder of Achex, an internet payments company, which was sold to First Data Corp for US$32 million and is the back end of Western Union online.
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Michael Arrington has served on the board of directors at the startup Foldera, which was designing a software as a service organizational tool.
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Michael Arrington rose to internet prominence with his Silicon Valley blog, TechCrunch.
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In early September 2011, Michael Arrington was reported to be no longer employed by TechCrunch but associated with a new investment company, AOL Ventures.
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In October 2012, Michael Arrington returned to writing for the Tech Crunch blog.
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In 2011, Arrington founded a venture capital firm called CrunchFund along with M G Siegler and Patrick Gallagher.
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In July 2008, Michael Arrington started a project called the Crunchpad, over a year before the iPad was released.
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The developers broke off from Michael Arrington and released the device on their own but it received few sales, and the developers later went bankrupt.
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In November 2017, Michael Arrington announced he was starting a $100 million hedge fund.