Techcrunch is about fostering and nurturing the growth of Arringtons ego. If he can focus on all the people who really do technology and are already successful, then he can feel like he is important and part of the scene.

Just like how he invited himself to the angelgate meetings and was greeting with a nice helping of "please god, not this fucking guy" yet referred to all of them as his "close friends"

Sure Disrupt is a good platform for startups and tech to launch, but seriously looking at the quality of their hosts, and all the article after article postings on TC that are riddled with mistakes, spelling errors, grammar errors etc, one cant take them too seriously.

It is ego factory, nothing more.