Michael Arrington : (4) " I love talking about taxes. " - Michael Arrington " Everything’s mobile these days. Let’s go mo-bile! But really, that’s just an IQ test. When you see bold new startups with nothing but a desktop strategy, you know they just don’t get it, and you move on. " - Michael Arrington " That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists – nearly $30 million – but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a ‘real job.’ That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor. " - Michael Arrington " Some people ask why we don’t just wait until we have the whole story before posting. The fact is that we sometimes can’t get to the end story without going through this process… When a story is up and posted, it’s amazing how many people come out of the woodwork to give us additional information… And readers love it. " - Michael Arrington