At lunchtime during day 1 of TechCrunch50 I caught up with Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch and co-founder of the tech conference, now in its second year. The gathering drew 1,800 people to the San Francisco Design Concourse on Sept. 8-10, 2008.
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