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" For the most part, I've sat on the sidelines over the years during the endless debates about how we need to do more to encourage more women to start companies. "
Michael Arrington
Start
Over
Women
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" Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking about WWII without talking about the nuke. Framing the conversation just in terms of open v. closed operating systems, the quality of the hardware or software or who the CEO was, is silly. "
Michael Arrington
Conversation
Apple
Quality
" Some people ask why we don't just wait until we have the whole story before posting. The fact is that we sometimes can't get to the end story without going through this process... When a story is up and posted, it's amazing how many people come out of the woodwork to give us additional information... And readers love it. "
Michael Arrington
People
End
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" The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs. "
Michael Arrington
Problem
True
Enough
" If you want to build a startup that has a good chance of succeeding, don't listen to me. Listen to Paul Graham and others who are applying tons of data to the idea of startup success. That will maximize your chance of being successful. "
Michael Arrington
Chance
You
Success
" I'm nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google. "
Michael Arrington
Major
Broke
Story
" I am a partner at CrunchFund, a venture capital firm with investments in many startups around the world. I am also a limited partner in many other venture funds which have their own startup investments. "
Michael Arrington
Partner
Firm
Venture
" Our independence from AOL was so important to me that I negotiated an extremely odd provision in our purchase agreement that allowed me to disclose confidential information about AOL. It was their job never to give me that information. It was not my job to protect it in any way. "
Michael Arrington
Way
Job
Information
" The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else. "
Michael Arrington
More
Money
Business
" I remember endless Apple v. Windows debates in the early '90s when I was in college. Macs were better machines, everyone said; the whole Office thing was a huge pain. It was difficult to transfer files between operating systems, and generally speaking, if you wanted to do Office stuff, you needed a Windows machine. "
Michael Arrington
Pain
Apple
College
" I've always believed that government tends to screw up whatever it touches, but Obama in particular seemed different. He understood tech issues that left the other candidates bewildered. Part of it may be his age. But whatever the reason, I had real hope that he could help lead us into a new century of technology leadership and growth. "
Michael Arrington
Growth
Hope
Leadership
" If you really care about Facebook likes, don't just post your stuff to Twitter and then rely on it being republished automatically to Facebook. In my sample size of one, Facebook penalizes you significantly for that and shows that content to far fewer people. "
Michael Arrington
Content
Care
Far
" There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dunking a basketball. Being a famous rock star. Or walking on Mars. But one thing I have been, and will always be, is an entrepreneur. "
Michael Arrington
Small
Walking
Life
" More than once at TechCrunch, we made AOL extremely uncomfortable with things that we wrote. But they never ordered us to write or not write about something because they understood that not only would we not comply, we'd write a post about the whole thing. "
Michael Arrington
Write
More
Never
" Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate. "
Michael Arrington
Random
Political
Logic
" I live a fairly simple life, and that didn't change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didn't buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat. Nothing too fancy or large. "
Michael Arrington
Live
Boat
Car
" Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth out. "
Michael Arrington
World
History
People
" If AOL had ever ordered me to remove a piece of content from the site for any reason, I would have immediately written about it and disclosed the situation to our readers. And if I had ever ordered a writer to remove content, I would have expected that writer to have done the same to me. "
Michael Arrington
Me
Content
Reason
" America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, we'd understand how unfixable the situation is; most of us would leave for a fresh start, and the company would fall apart. America is MySpace. "
Michael Arrington
Hate
Start
Fall
" Sometimes I have so many financial conflicts of interest that I can't even keep them straight. "
Michael Arrington
Interest
Sometimes
Keep
" Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest. "
Michael Arrington
Money
Now
Interest
" One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of things about our criminal legal system that need to be changed, and this is just one of them. Prosecutors know how to play the press. Most defendants don't. "
Michael Arrington
Hate
Play
Legal
" Women in my world are respected as much as men. "
Michael Arrington
Men
World
Women
" I love talking about taxes. "
Michael Arrington
About
Taxes
Talking
" If we want to get beyond this whole I'm-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging women to get engineering degrees in college. "
Michael Arrington
Start
Need
Engineering
" The main thing to know about me is that I'm a champion of entrepreneurs and the startups they build. They are my rock stars. If in doubt, I side with them, and that's clear from my writing. "
Michael Arrington
Me
Writing
Stars
" I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure. "
Michael Arrington
Hold
Transparency
Standards
" Leaving America means renouncing your citizenship, moving out of the country and leaving family and friends behind. You can retain your citizenship if you like, but you'll still be away from loved ones and still be paying taxes. You lose all the good stuff about America and have to keep all the bad stuff. "
Michael Arrington
Friends
Good
Moving
" Everything's mobile these days. Let's go mo-bile! But really, that's just an IQ test. When you see bold new startups with nothing but a desktop strategy, you know they just don't get it, and you move on. "
Michael Arrington
Test
You
Bold
" Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences. "
Michael Arrington
Rules
Way
Understanding
" I want something completely new and different to happen, and lots of it. Stuff that makes us change the way we think about a market or the world. Something that inspires a new generation of crazy startups doing crazy things. "
Michael Arrington
Think
Crazy
World