TechCrunch, once a leading technology media platform, is facing significant challenges that have led to layoffs and the shuttering of TechCrunchPlus, which was launched to complement TechCrunch's ads and events revenue. Former employees expressed their sentiments on social media, reflecting on the impact of the layoffs and the closure of TechCrunchPlus. Danny Crichton, the founding editor of TechCrunchPlus, provided an analysis of TechCrunch's economic and business model struggles within the broader context of the media industry's difficulties, including the failure of TechCrunchPlus due to issues with finding business reporters. In its heyday, TechCrunch could expect ~100K views on a post, illustrating the scale of its past influence.
Thoughtful analysis on TechCrunch's business and recent layoffs by someone that used to work there (@DannyCrichton): https://t.co/BvLdU3tNj9
TechCrunch+'s founding editor about its launch to complement TechCrunch's ads and events revenue and its failure due to issues with finding business reporters (@dannycrichton / Securities) https://t.co/UoJVGffkOk 📫 Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIM https://t.co/ExGMFSM3Ql
TechCrunch+'s founding editor about its launch to complement TechCrunch's ads and events revenue and its failure due to issues with finding business reporters (@dannycrichton / Securities) https://t.co/fYkbbdQ7wj https://t.co/pom5hWPmM9
"The most important challenge of modern media is balancing an audience’s desire for certain types of stories w/ a human reporter’s ability to deliver them. Unlike a tech company building an app or a cloud service, this is not an easy product to iterate." Dang @TechCrunchPlus 💔 https://t.co/QL6naLZu4b
Excellent piece by @DannyCrichton on the trials and travails of our joint alma mater TechCrunch. If TC—which was, as Danny notes, in its heyday a site where one could reasonably expect ~100K views on a post—can't make it, you have to wonder who can. https://t.co/TiUqLG7UhJ
Excellent piece by @DannyCrichton on the trials and travails of our joint alma mater TechCrunch. If TC—which was, as Danny notes, in its heyday a site where one could reasonably expect ~50K views on a post—can't make it, you have to wonder who can. https://t.co/TiUqLG7UhJ
I was really looking forward to the future of tech but I’m not so sure anymore https://t.co/uvwi2uJWl4
I am saddened that @TechCrunchPlus, where I was founding editor, is being shuttered. Here's a reflection on the past and present of @TechCrunch's economics and business model within the maelstrom of the media hellscape: https://t.co/DeRveA1Thj
I guess it takes some downtime to process hard things, because today was the first time I felt a gut-punch about being laid off from TechCrunch. It’s not the lay off (if not me then someone else, and why would I wish that on anyone?) but realizing I’m losing a group of people who…
It was once a tech unicorn. Now its future is looking uncertain: https://t.co/d9j0dCuctW https://t.co/QXtOut1hq3