Avg. rating
based on
17 ratings
Michael Arrington
#6 in Internet
Description: Michael Arrington grew up in California and Surrey, England. He started college at U.C. Berkeley, and transferred to Claremont McKenna, a tiny college located near Los Angeles, after his freshman year. Arrington majored in economics and attended law school at Stanford after graduation. Arrington spent a few years as a corporate attorney at O'Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini, working exclusively with technology companies. His clients included Idealab, Netscape, Pixar, Apple, among other startups, venture funds and investment banks. Arrington co-authored a book on IPOs while working at Wilson Sonsini. Arrington left Wilson Sonsini to run sales and business development at a startup, RealNames. The company failed to go public after raising over $100 million in venture capital. Arrington left the company adn co-founded a firm called Achex which raised $20 million and was acquired by First Data Corp for $32 million. Michael Arrington worked in an operational role at a Carlyle backed startup in London, founded and ran two companies in Canada (Zip.ca and Pool.com), was COO to a Kleiner backed company called Razorgator, and consulted to other companies, including SnapNames and Verisign. In addition to TechCrunch, Arrington is the founder of edgeio and a member of the edgeio board of directors.
