A little stale news this time in the day, but it’s great to see Mike in the Time’s 100. He’s fittingly in the “Builders & Titans” category. I remember Mike’s original promise that by joining TechCrunch with it’s (now meager) 20,000 subscribers I’d have the opportunity to be at the center of everything happening in the valley. Over the next year and a half, it was definitely the case as new web startups were born in Mike’s backyard (featured in the photo along with his shoddy lawn furniture).
TechCrunch was really at the center of two turning points, the growth of blogging as a business and the next growth spurt of the web. TechCrunch fostered the growth and attention on startups unlike any other site on the web. It also gave rise to the idea that readers could get more value from reading a blog by an entrenched industry expert(s) instead of the business section of their paper. I look at the attention Mike’s getting as not only his personal validation, but also validation of the community the site’s fostered over the years.
Congrats.
