TC Cribs

I was the host and co-creator of this series of startup office tours, featuring endearingly awkward geeks, ridiculous amenities, and great art. Emphasis on awkward; the following episode was recently recognized by Reddit’s taste-making community Cringe for...

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Google Voice

Long ago, when the App Store was young, Apple did something crazy: it blocked a sexy new Google app. This was truly balls-out nuts because Apple and Google were BFF — eighteen months earlier, Steve Jobs had...

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Silicon Valley

I had the incredible experience of playing myself on HBO’s Silicon Valley, as the emcee of TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield. Here’s what I said when TechCrunch asked me about the experience: It was totally surreal, like some...

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TechCrunch

I fell into a job writing for TechCrunch at the tender age of 22. TechCrunch was a startup writing about startups. We worked out of the boss’s house. It was nuts. It was grueling. It was great....

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Sex, Bugs, and Evernote

For years I’ve compulsively collected the ridiculous thoughts that flutter through my head. Many of these reside in Evernote, the Silicon Valley firm that raised over $200 million to become your “second brain”. This story begins in...

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