Mike Butcher

Dr Geoffrey Butcher, 29th September 1940 – 15th June 2026 Eulogy, 17 July 2026 Read by Michael Butcher, co-written with Helen Rawlins We gather today to remember and give thanks for the life of Dr Geoffrey Butcher: husband, father, grandfather, great-gran…

I’m launching Pathfounders, a new tech media brand to offer informed reporting, analysis, and opinion on the top tech startups and VC firms across Europe, Silicon Valley, and globally.

An announcement: After 18 years, TechCrunch and I have parted ways.

In August, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its major sixth assessment report on the physical science of climate change.

Since I wrote my original rant… sorry, essay about why tech startups often fail to engage productively with the media, (“The Press release is dead”) and what do to about it, I’ve had a lot of feedback.

Two years ago today I found myself on BBC’s Newsnight sitting in front of Jeremy Paxman at 11.10pm.

I’m QUITE TIRED of dealing with MILLIONS of tech entrepreneurs (these days there are a HELL of a lot of you) and (some) PR people who have ZERO clue how to pitch me/TechCrunch/the media.

This is an unashamedly personal post which I thought sat better on my (slightly neglected) personal blog than on TechCrunch.

Below is a talk I’ve given dozens of times on how to deal with the tech media, especially when you are a tech startup – usually the ‘blogging’ type media these days.

I met Steve Jobs once.