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"TC: Hey, tell us about your startups when they're ready launch, we want to write about them on our popular and relevant website. YC: OK."
As such, it's no real surprise that a lot of Y Combinator startups make it on to TechCrunch. As pg explains above, Y Combinator pretty much tells their startups this, and if they give Arrington an exclusive, that coupled with pg's reputation can seal a story pretty easily.
link. bait. for. failed. website.
I don't really buy this for a number of reasons, which is not to say that YC companies don't do exclusives with TC, but the author makes it sound way too shady.
I don't really buy this for a number of reasons, which is not to say that YC companies don't do exclusives with TC, but the author makes it sound way too shady.
I think the more interesting question might be why does this sound shady. It's not coincidental. People have a tendency to regard press 'deals' as very shady and be very suspicious that they are occurring.
Attacking everybody and everything just doesn't seem like a healthy way to approach life to me, and whenever I read his articles, I'm tempted to respond in kind and explain what a douche he's being...which is then transferring the unhealthy attitude onto me.
I didn't realize uncov was a Dziuba effort, or I would have skipped it. And next time I will. Life is too short to spend it railing against everything and everybody, and I certainly don't want to get sucked up into his hate maelstrom.
I don't really buy this for a number of reasons, which is not to say that YC companies don't do exclusives with TC, but the author makes it sound way too shady.
I think the more interesting question might be why does this sound shady. It's not coincidental. People have a tendency to regard press 'deals' as very shady and be very suspicious that they are occurring.
So, Ted Dziuba always strikes me as pretty much negative about everything. I don't know him personally, but everything I've ever read by him has been hyper-critical of everybody involved in our industry. And yet, he's involved in the industry as well (he has some kind of media startup or something, that I don't remember and can't be bothered to look up), and so ought to have a sympathetic view of the trials and tribu…