Michael Arrington

Founder & Editor, TechCrunch

Michael Arrington is the founder and editor of the TechCrunch Network, a group of weblogs and podcast sites that together attract over one million monthly visitors and generate over 3 million page views. Mr. Arrington is also the co-founder and a member of the board of directors of Edgeio Corporation, a venture-backed Silicon Valley based aggregator of edge-of-networkcontent. He also serves on a number of advisory boards and is a member of the board of directors of Foldera Corp., a publicly traded company.Prior to TechCrunch, Mr. Arrington was an executive consultant to a number of technology companies, includingVerisign, Fatlens and SnapNames. Prior to his consulting positions, Mr. Arrington was the founding President and CEO of Ottawa-based Pool.com, a $25 million e-commerce company. Prior to Pool.com, he was the COO of RazorGator, Inc., acting COO at Global Name Registry, Ltd., and Co-Founder and Vice President at Achex, Inc., a Silicon Valley based payments infrastructure company. Prior to Achex, Mr. Arrington held various positions at RealNames Corporation, including General Counsel and VP Sales & Business Development. Prior to RealNames, Mr. Arrington was an attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, California, where he specialized in corporate finance and mergers & acquisitions law. At WSGR, Mr. Arrington co-authored a book published byBowne on corporate finance titled “The Initial Public Offering: A Practical Guide for Executives. Mr. Arrington received a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a B.A. in Economics from Claremont McKenna College. He is a member of the California Bar Association.