Comments on: Why I resigned from Gillmor Gang

By: Bah oui, anomie

Bah oui, anomie — Fri, 04 May 2007 04:08:29 +0000

[...] That day in San Francisco, Steve Gillmor seemed to suffer the same malaise that was plaguing Arrington. These guys were down. Something had them bummed out. Who knows what? But it seemed to be contagious. [...]

By: Yellek

Yellek — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:34:55 +0000

Now I’m torn, I enjoyed hearing you on GG and I definitely didn’t enjoy hearing the bickering that goes on. I’m hoping that you can stitch up something with Jason and maybe some others because I think that you offered a valuable alternative perspective and I enjoyed your insights.

Maybe the gang will be less painful to listen to now, unless Steve finds someone else to pick on, but I think it has lost something because you are no longer there.

Come back to podcasting soon, please.

By: A Regular Mantra » Why TechCrunch needs RoughType or Is this professional wrestling?

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:54:47 +0000

[...] I started reading TechCrunch last summer, when it just started out. If I remember right, there were only some 60 odd posts by Mr. Arrington then. I remember plugging TechCrunch enthusiastically because the passion and interest of Mr. Arrington leaped off the posts. But then, the whole Web2.0 was a new, new thing back then (hard to believe this was only 12 months back…ahh the arrow of time, especially in Internet) and it was worth getting passionate about. Ruby on Rails (as a non-techie, I have no idea what this means) was relatively new, Ajax was still a brand of C-P and men were men. The startups were blazing new trails and no wonder Mr. Arrington got excited. Hell, I used to be all agog sitting many thousands of miles away from the epicenter! At some point, because of all this attention that Mr. Arrington poured on the area, a lot of startups reached out to him and made him the messiah of Web 2.0. All well deserved. At some point however, it started to sour. I don’t quite remember the time, but sometime early this year, I no longer cared much if I visited TechCrunch every day. It appeared to me that the sheer quantity of startups had somehow buried the high quality businesses. TechCrunch started to get more and more in-crowded. Most of the reviews and coverage seemed to be targeted at a very specific group of people: tech, based in California and heavily involved in the Web 2.0 sector. Most of the companies covered just do not sound interesting to me (someone who lives thousands of miles from Silicon Valley, literally as well as figuratively). That’s when I thought Mr. Arrington had created a monster in TechCrunch. The blog (now it is more like an institution) has become a voracious machine that demanded more and more attention, news and support. The parties became bigger and bigger and the passion was gone. Mr. Arrington no longer sounds excited and delighted while sharing news about a startup. I see him distracted by sideshows, injured egos and trifles these days. It is something like a messiah who fought to spread his message, succeeded big time, achieved his goal and then finds out he still has another 100 years to live with nothing to fight for. Nothing significant that is. [...]

By: Angus McDonald

Angus McDonald — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:49:21 +0000

Heh … life’s to short to inflict idiots on yourself. Good call.

By: jason

jason — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:05:50 +0000

Steve has been harsh on you Mike, but it does make for good listening, and I’m sure the two of you knew that. You were the only one who would really get into a heated debate with Steve. Talking about and agree like the others do is good, but having two sides shown is good too. You’ll be missed! I’ll have to subscribe to TalkCrunch I guess!

By: Paul Roberts

Paul Roberts — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 03:25:59 +0000

I have to say that I am also surprised this is what finally broke you Mike, after Steve’s constant harrassment. I thought GG was the best it has ever been with you and Calcanis on it (well I guess this was the first show you were on together?). But you both add a spark that had sort of died out for a while. I think a show with Calcanis would be very interesting.

I’ll really miss you on GG. Maybe you’ll come back as a guest when Carr isn’t around?

By: Chris Saad

Chris Saad — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:18:10 +0000

Mike I have to say your defense of the little guy is really to be commended. It’s not just rhetoric. Thanks for helping me out the other day – it was very much appreciated!

By: Frank Koehntopp

Frank Koehntopp — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:58:42 +0000

A real pity. Mike, IMHO you were the finest addition to the gang ever since it left IT Conversations, and I’ve enjoyed every single episode (except for the 7 minutes ad block, but that’s what you get for selling a show…). Hope you’ll do that Gang 2.0 with Doc etc….

By: Scott Trotter

Scott Trotter — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:57:28 +0000

I think that the best possible host of the Gillmor Gang is, and hopefully remains, Steve Gillmor. But I also think that the quality of a GG session is inversely proportional to the amount of Steve’s active participation in the discussion. Its a fine line between being host and panelist, and the show is better, IMHO, when Steve is more the former and less the latter.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 03:42:10 +0000

Second the opinion that Mr. Gillmor often treats Mike as nastily as an older brother might.