Fact-Checking Mark Rober, and the Fall of TechCrunch | E2101

Tech Wrench just got sold to a group company called Regent that dropped out of the sky. No one saw that coming. Like all these things, it's probably an SEO play. I'm I'm guessing it's a fire cell and SEO plan. They're gonna cut two thirds of the writers. And uh game over. What do you think, Alex? Adversarial. Uh you can have an opinion. No, I I I mean I'm this is one of those times that I'm so conflicted it's hard to it's hard to be clear headed. I mean I love so many people there. We like to

We this is like This is where you could actually uh you know earn your bones here. Just let it rip. Okay, I I think the people complain that the media isn't sufficiently nice to tech are a bunch of whiners and they should go sit upon their thrones of gold and stop coveting about people who make one one thousandth of their income. This week in Startups is brought to you by

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