I'm not well versed in the history and context of TechCrunch or CrunchFund, but isn't the very notion of a startup investor writing (supposedly unbiased) columns about startup news an incredible conflict of interest? Am I missing something?
Are they conflicted? Yeah, of course they are, and we will be transparent on that issue at all times. But, we also believe our readers are smart enough to put these columns into context and understand the impact of CrunchFund’s investing on the editorial.
>But, we also believe our readers are smart enough to put these columns into context and understand the impact of CrunchFund’s investing on the editorial.
That's like soda companies saying that their consumers are smart enough to recognize that the sugar content in their drinks can have adverse effects on their health (without mentioning neither their tremendous and ubiquitous marketing efforts, nor the way their drinks are chemically designed to cause overconsumption)
Ridiculous. While I thank you for the confidence, only someone extremely ignorant would believe that they could predict, let alone understand the complexities and resultant ramifications.
Perhaps I could superficially understand that there is a conflict, but that's about it.
