DISQUS

Mathew's comments: Conflict of interest, Web 2.0-style

  • David · 2 years ago
    Matthew
    She isn't an investor in Vator, it is her company. She started it, and got Peter as an investor and has been out actively raising money. That part CNET and WSJ got wrong.
  • Mathew · 2 years ago
    Thanks for the comment, David -- I'm aware of that from Matt's post and others. If anything though, that makes the conflict worse.
  • Randy Charles Morin · 2 years ago
    What new? How is this different than TechCrunch? Mike brags that conflict of interest is what makes TechCrunch great. You link to him all the time? How come you aren't asking Mike to leave TechCrunch?
  • Mathew · 2 years ago
    Well, Randy, I can think of a few things that make it different -- one is that Mike has said he doesn't take shares in companies, as he mentioned in the ZDNet story, and he declares his conflicts openly. As far as I can tell, Bambi has done the former and not done the latter.
  • Randy Charles Morin · 2 years ago
    Mathew, that completely untrue. Mike has been caught too many times trying to conceal his conflicts of interest.
    http://www.valleywag.com/tech/techcrunch/disclo...
  • Mathew · 2 years ago
    I realize Mike has had some issues in the past with disclosure of conflicts, but I get the impression he has gotten better at disclosing them -- certainly a lot better than Bambi was at disclosing hers. You're free to disagree, of course.
  • HMTKSteve · 2 years ago
    Would it be a conflict of interest if someone from Ford Motors started up an after market parts company?

    Is this only a conflict of interests because they are pushing a company that was started by a former employee?

    We are talking about journalism and reporting. If it is news it should be reported.