Startups and Self-Loathing at the 8th Annual Crunchies Awards
here's what it was like Sam Colt / Business Insider : This guy managed to appall almost all of Silicon Valley over the course of an hour Jamapro / CBS San Francisco : Did ‘Silicon Valley’ Star TJ Miller Turn The 8th Annual Crunchies Awards Into Cringe-Fest? Matt Burns / TechCrunch : Announcing The Winners Of The 8th Annual Crunchies Awards Tweets: Erin Griffith / @eringriffith : “Everyone here must know that everyone is making too much money” http://recode.net/... Jordan Crook / @jordanrcrook : 5/ The Crunchies may be a self-congratulatory, inside-baseball affair, but today's reactions were too. Michael Arrington / @arrington : On the other hand, my God Silicon Valley has turned into the most sensitive, easy to offend place. Katie Jacobs Stanton / @katies : Honored that Twitter won a #crunchie but that was the most uncomfortable event I've ever attended as a woman. Daniel Burka / @dburka : “If anyone is honest with themselves, they must think that the reward is disproportionate to the work” @stewart truth http://recode.net/... Michael Arrington / @arrington : I thought this last night, and I still think it 24 hours later. The Crunchies were a disaster this year. Susie Cagle / @susie_c : Crunchies 2019: Host is a robot, Kalanick announces run for president, Constine launches wearable wifi curl start-up pic.twitter.com/gyPrZXqiU6 Jessica Misener / @jessmisener : At Crunchies I saw a woman get called a “bitch” onstage, then I did AOL TV & the host mocked me for being pale and made fun of my purse. Ryan Block / @ryan : 1/ I know many of the folks who put on the Crunchies, and I know they had the best of intentions. I'm sad that they didn't translate. Hunter Walk / @hunterwalk : The way this is going, a white dude is going to win the #Crunchies for female entrepreneur of the year #ammirite Rebecca Huval / @bhuval : Startup speak: “Line is really truly a life platform. We're really the godfather of stickers.” http://recode.net/... Anthony Ha / @anthonyha : The Crunchies, the Teen Choice Awards of the tech industry http://recode.net/... Authentic Milk Taste / @vogon : if you want to go read about a miserable, disgusting series of things that happened last night, http://recode.net/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : Thank you @NellieBowles for capturing the bonfire shambles that was last night's Crunchies http://recode.net/... http://twitter.com/... Lauren Goode / @laurengoode : “Who's the CEO of Pepsi? It doesn't matter. With startup founders it does.” <— reality distortion at its worst http://on.recode.net/1zEXJfb Jonathan Abrams / @abrams : “T.J. Miller was smashing a TechCrunch piñata as a hundred people walked out of his performance” http://recode.net/...