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February 25, 2013 12:17 am GMT

Jason Kincaid On The Mythology Of TechCrunch

I was happily surprised to see Hunter Walk interview Jason Kincaid, one of the first TechCrunch employees. The interview is here and I’m reprinting it below. Jason joined TechCrunch when it was still being run out of my house (before the city of Atherton kicked us out). Even after “retiring” he’s still no. 11 on the all time tech writers list. Jason broke a lot of big stories. But he also has the rare ability to write thought pieces that shape Silicon Valley culture and thinking. From the moment he joined he was part of the core backbone of TechCrunch. From the article I wrote when he resigned in 2012: Jason has the rare ability in a writer to both break big stories on his own, as well as write strong opinion articles on the topics of the day. Younger writers (who were often older than him) looked to him for leadership and guidance. He could have quite easily run TechCrunch entirely after we left. Anyway, this interview is interesting because it talks about some of the things that happened early on, things that became part of the mythology of TechCrunch. It was great to see this. Early Employees: Jason Kincaid & the Rise of TechCrunch Jason Kincaid, early TechCrunch reporter (@jasonkincaid) Q: When did you join TechCrunch and how did you originally get connected to the team? A: I usually tell a sanitized version of this story, but what the hell. It was March 2008, and Id just graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in biology, a minor in society and genetics, and zero sense as to what I wanted to do with my life. My good friend Ed McManus (now cofounder of Yardsale) invited me to a party being thrown by an investor in honor of Scribds (the YouTube for documents) first birthday. The party was unlike anything college had prepared me for and the likes of which I havent seen since. Caviar and vodka shots. Sculptures made of seafood. A basement that had been overhauled to resemble a vintage gas station. Waiters who walked around with endless glasses of champagne, deftly swooping in as soon as one hit empty. Id had a few and sure, I sampled the vodka but the single stair, running the full length between the living room and a hallway, really should not have been there. It was too easy

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