19 February, 2007

Arrington does it again, doh!

gargamel eating a smurfArrington reminds me of Gargamel from the smurfs. He’s a total dictator by the sounds of things.

Does this guy ever learn from his mistakes? I picked up a story about his latest victim from Sam Sethi, who also found himself on Arrington’s evening menue.

Oliver Starr is the latest guy to fall victim at the Arrington dinning table .

Michael asked me to stop writing MobileCrunch after I agreed to accept a position as Senior Mobile Analyst for Chris Shipley’s Guidewire Group as Mike feels that TechCrunch and Guidewire are competitive concerns.I had every intention of continuing as the author of MobileCrunch and was sincerely disappointed that Michael chose to make the decision he had. I have put over a year of my life into building up the readership and content at MobileCrunch and having to start building an audience again from zero is not something that I relish doing. – Oliver Starr.

Perhaps I’m too lenient, should I have compared Arrington to Hannibal Lecter?

Anyone for dinner?

 

One Response to “Arrington does it again, doh!”

  1. [...] How ironic. After noticing Mike Arrington visited our blog today, I decided to email him for his opinion on my recent post about Oliver Starr’s departure from MobileCrunch. Less than 5 minutes later I received a Flickr email informing me that I’m now the proud Administrator of the TechCrunch UK member group. [...]

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