We have a Gizbuzz Exclusive today. As you can read everywhere, Sam Sethi, the publisher of TechCrunch UK was ‘dismissed’ yesterday, and TCUK has been put on hold. Mike Arrington’s been dealing with the issue over at CrunchNotes. I managed to catch up with Sam to ask him for his side of events, which haven’t really been heard yet. Sam seems far calmer about the whole thing than anyone else!
We discuss what actually happened, what he was hoping TCUK would achieve, the UK startup scene and what his future plans are.
Sam has now managed to get back into his website (listen for details!), which is at vecosys.com.
Just a note of caution - the ‘Mike’ that Sam’s planning on working with in the future is Mike Butcher, editor of TechCrunch UK, as opposed to Arrington. I wonder why!
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Hi,
Nice feature.
Maybe you’d like to include some highlights from the chat that Sam related to (UK companies with potential, culture differences etc.)?
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