Natali Del Conte’s last day with TechCrunch was last Friday. I’ll let her make her own announcement regarding what she’ll do next, but I want to wish her luck on behalf of the entire TechCrunch team. She was here just three weeks, but it’s clear she’s going to be a star at whatever she chooses to do.
Natali gave me a couple of reasons for leaving. She’s gotten an offer from another company (again, I’ll let her make any announcements on that), but was willing to stay on part time with TechCrunch. I appreciate that, but I want our writers to be completely focused on TechCrunch and not working with competitors. She also told me the comments were really getting to her, and the turmoil from last week (TechCrunch UK, NYTimes debacle) played a part as well.
It’s hard to explain how brutal user comments can be. And if you are a woman you often have to deal with sexism as well. Natali was dealing with both. She’s never had that kind of direct, anonymous feedback, and it’s clear it got to her to some extent. I’m very sorry for that.
it seems alot of people dont actually want to work for TechCrunch! Everyone seems to leave after a few weeks!
Please. Natali was a VERY fluffy writer. I’m glad I don’t have to read reviews like this anymore (from the TC review of “MusicPlusTV Is Cool…I Think”):
“This is one of the coolest music video sites I’ve seen but I have to admit none of these genres are my kind of music. I don’t consume content that is nearly this hip but if I did, I would give this site full props because it is well organized, production value is high, the streams are clean, and the shows have plenty of musical content instead of some VJ who wants to chat about their own life. If I were cool, I definitely would say this company is cool.”
Even after 3 month after Del Conte left TechCrunch I really, really miss her articles.
She was/is a damn good writer. I would be glad to see her back. I would rather close the comments section than to give her a reason to quit because of dumb comments.
Her ironic view was just funny and her technological knowledge astonished me.
Regards,
René
How painfully ironic, Mike, that a good number of the comments on this post are so childishly negative.
people take the internet too seriously. everyone needs to lighten up