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That rumor going around today

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 - 4:10PM

Well, looks like my man Mike finally found occasion to write about me (little does he know, I’ve spent years plotting my way onto TechCrunch). Granted, I’m not commenting on that (or any) rumors about my career and future, but it’s never a bad thing to have people interested, right? It’s certainly a lot better than the alternative.

What I will say — and it’s the same thing I told Mike earlier today — is that, as I enter my fifth year at Engadget, I’m still totally focused on it, our team, and living up to the enormous level of trust our readers place in us day in and out. (As I’m sure Veronica would tell you, I’m probably actually too focused.) I can also say that I had no idea until today that I owned 39+ domain names, but that’s pretty awesome.

Quote: Engadget drives 14x more clicks than TechCrunch

Monday, October 29th, 2007 - 12:58PM

Spark Capital VC Bijan Sabet quoted: “We’ve had a fair share of press releases that have gone out on the wire and I don’t see much return from that. We had one investment company get picked up on Engadget and got a 14:1 return versus a mention on TechCrunch.” There’s no way you could extrapolate any real data from that quote, but it’s interesting nonetheless.