Hello all! Connie Loizos right here with a short bulletin: I’m the brand new Basic Supervisor and Editor-in-Chief of TechCrunch. [Puffs on cigar.]
I do know, you’re busy – I get it – so I need to take only a minute of your time to clarify how TechCrunch is evolving to satisfy your wants as we cost ahead over right here.
First, with this new appointment, we’re going to lean much more closely into what we do finest, which is to cowl the quickly increasing startup and VC scene. It’s a world I do know effectively because the founding father of StrictlyVC, a well-liked day by day e-newsletter that Yahoo has additionally acquired as a part of this transition and which can proceed hitting subscribers’ inboxes day by day. Going ahead, we’re going to proceed telling you what, however we’re going to be diving extra deeply into the who, why, and the way.
Second, you’re going to begin seeing much more unique reporting in TechCrunch. We’ll nonetheless catch you up on among the larger tales that it’s essential know, however rather more of our time goes to be spent discovering tales that nobody else is telling you.
Lastly, we plan on providing you extra methods to floor what’s most related to you. Along with StrictlyVC, we’re going to introduce extra e-newsletter merchandise, extra video content material, extra intimate occasions and . . . effectively, we’ll maintain again a couple of of our plans to shock you.
We might be constructing on the work of Matthew Panzarino and Joey Hinson. Matthew has been steering TC for the higher a part of ten years. He’s a giant cause why I joined TechCrunch as Silicon Valley Editor years in the past and has much more to do with why I’m nonetheless right here. Fortunately, he’s going to proceed on as an advisor to Yahoo and TechCrunch, and he’s already offering me with nice counsel. Joey, our longtime GM, in the meantime deserves credit score for materially enhancing TechCrunch’s enterprise, even within the face of financial headwinds. Joey equally had an incredible run — 11 years — earlier than lately accepting a brand new function elsewhere, and we’re lacking him already. (His final day is Friday, however we’re a sentimental bunch.)
It’s a aggressive panorama, and to be able to preserve your consideration, we all know we now have to proceed to earn it. Thankfully, we now have a group that’s second to none. I might stack up my colleagues in opposition to any tech information group on the market. They know their stuff.
In fact, we additionally have you ever, who’ve by no means shied away from telling us once we are veering off monitor. Please, preserve the suggestions coming (minus the expletives).
Thanks very a lot as at all times for studying TechCrunch. We recognize every certainly one of you and we stay up for stunning and delighting you within the weeks and months to return.