The change of tone in Tech Crunch over the last 5 years was something that I feel personally sad about.
I was a long-time reader, and being in a peripheral place where we looked up to the American companies, TC sounded very optimistic with their coverage, bringing success stories, talking with founders, and most importantly, being on this industry radar, at least from the standpoint of a more journalistic and general audience level.
During the latest years, TC became a bit bitter around the industry and forgot the sea of small companies and scale-ups, and started to be more political and critical, and the least being a good thing in a certain way, probably does not have the ideological muscle to do it like the more mainstream media. In other words, if I want to check some critique, I would go to some independent and ideological shop and get the straight point, then some sugar-coated criticism.
Funny how the overly positive writing style makes it feel like there’s something fishy happening and that they’re trying to give it a positive spin.
New era for TechCrunch with expert journalists — article writen by ChatGPT.
For the context:
> In March 2025, Regent acquired Foundry, the owner of technology publications such as PC World, Macworld, and InfoWorld, from International Data Group and acquired TechCrunch from Yahoo!.
I remember getting approached by an investor after TechCrunch mentioned my idea in TechDisrupt hackathon.
Is TechCrunch still as hyped as it was 10 years ago?
I’m genuinely interested to know what others think.
I doubt this is a “new era” for TC. At this point, it’s more of a brand than an impactful media outlet. Maybe Regent will just squeeze out whatever SEO juice is left.
....Overall neutral.
The closest similarity I could see based from Regent's past is Sunset magazine, which still seems to be doing well & printing physical issues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_(magazine)#Sale_to_Rege...
*EDIT: And before anyone pushes out a narrative: The financial troubles that the magazine faced happened well before Regent's appearance, and their acquisition has kept the magazine alive up until now.
More big money swooping up journalism, what could go wrong.
I still appreciate TC’s coverage and style quite a lot. The level of overall enshittification in regards to quality and UX is rather moderate. For a 20 year old news outlet with various owners throughout the years, in an industry with rapid, constant changes, that’s an achievement.
Two irrelevant companies
LOL
I stopped reading Techcrunch when they added an extremely hostile cookie banner, surprised they're still going.
What's Michael Arrington up to these days?
TC was so completely op 20 years ago, it was ridiculous. Had a tiny startup back then, not even in the US and all of a sudden started getting calls from VCs, including Bessemer and alike. Turns out there was a 3-line mention on the TC. He just asked if anyone heard of us ... lol. Good times.