http://istechcrunchdeadyet.com/ "What happens if arrington leaves (as many founders do) "Site is done. He leaves, and his sources will follow him and he will setup shop elsewhere."
Site will likely coast at current levels for awhile.
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Re: Arrington out at AOL (for real this time)
#32This is abhorrently unimportant drama. TC has been a trash rag from the start, and their flaming dramatic burnout is just as trash as everything else they've ever published. Go away already. This is publicity coup 101 shit. DIAF.
Re: Arrington out at AOL (for real this time)
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#35(throwaway account for the natural reasons)
As an engineer at Aol, articles like this drive me crazy. I'm not 100% sold on the company's viability as it stands (MapQuest, AIM, and Moviefone don't really belong together), but I do want it to succeed. Bizzarre politicking played out publicly and the steady stream of internal emails stating "so-and-so got promoted and other-so-and-so is gone effective immediately" are getting disheartening.
I know the siren song of "it doesn't have to be like this" that startups sing (and, until relatively recently, all I worked at were startups). But (surprise!) Aol has a lot of great engineers. Once you get an excuse to work cross-property and can see that on a bigger scale, it begins to feel like "Hey, if we had the opportunity, we could build some (more) amazing stuff."
But we're constantly reminded that this is a HuffPo world now and business drama is par for the course. Sigh.
Re: Arrington out at AOL (for real this time)
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess it depends on how you interpret this graph: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/engadget.com/?metric=uv (given their contentious relationship it is ironic that AOL killed both Jason Calacanis and Mike Arrington's greatest accomplishments in the exact same way)
Compete/Alexa rankings are worthless. It is known.
I agree on the specific numbers and on smaller sites. But on sites as large as engadget I think they can show fairly accurate trending
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#37(throwaway account for the natural reasons) As an engineer at Aol, articles like this drive me crazy. I'm not 100% sold on the company's viability as it stands (MapQuest, AIM, and Moviefone don't really belong together), but I do want it to succeed. Bizzarre politicking played out publicly and the steady stream of internal emails stating "so-and-so got promoted and other-so-and-so is gone effective immediately" are g…
aol is not a software company.
it is not a tech company either, and hasn't been for a long time.
it was an ad-sales company until 2008 and now it is a media company.
Re: Arrington out at AOL (for real this time)
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
With a probable non-compete?
Which noncompetes have been repeatedly held unenforceable (acquisition NC's not included, but they usually have a short lifespan) in California?
He lives in Washington legally. Non-competes are generally enforceable even in California in the case of acquisitions like this. It's hard to argue that he wasn't given sufficient "consideration" which is usually the main issue for normal non-competes in employment contracts. IANAL though.
Re: Arrington out at AOL (for real this time)
#39This is abhorrently unimportant drama. TC has been a trash rag from the start, and their flaming dramatic burnout is just as trash as everything else they've ever published. Go away already. This is publicity coup 101 shit. DIAF.
Oh get off the high horse and allow those of us who are enjoying this soap opera to indulge in some "abhorrently unimportant drama". You have no guilty pleasures?
Re: Arrington out at AOL (for real this time)
#40Reminds me of the Theseus Paradox: if all component parts (Arrington + writers) of Techcrunch are replaced will it be Techcrunch? And conversely, if all component parts setup shop at a new blog, is that Techcrunch (a map/territory debate perhaps?) Oh how I would kill to be the lawyers perusing employment agreements, anti-poaching clauses, etc right now. And very much looking forward to Disrupt this week.
I guess it depends on how you interpret this graph: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/engadget.com/?metric=uv (given their contentious relationship it is ironic that AOL killed both Jason Calacanis and Mike Arrington's greatest accomplishments in the exact same way)
speaking of arrington's contentious relationships and recent irony:
Bartz canned Tuesday. Arrington canned Wednesday.