Alexia Tsotsis

So “Weird Twitter” is a thing. If you need a little background be sure to check out Weird Twitter Explained by Nick Douglas. At a high level it’s a collection of Twitter accounts that together write in a similar and less accessible writing style. There’s a lot of personas and insider jokes going on that are extremely funny to an extremely specific audience. When it comes to the tech industry and startups we have our own little Weird Twitter happening. Ours consists mostly of parody accounts...Read Full Story

Today I had a Twitter debate with a woman in tech I highly respect; TechCrunch’s editor Alexia Tsotsis. What I respect about Alexia is that she writes truthfully, never pandering to her abusive audience of trolls who judge her for every word she writes. It takes big balls to read endless hater comments on your posts from mostly men who decide it’s their job to tell you if your writing sucks or not; I’ve been there and it’s not pretty. But maybe I was wrong about Alexia as it was surprising...Read Full Story

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:Threadflip Raises $6.5M From Shasta, Chris Sacca And Others, Launches Mobile App  —  Clothing swap in online form Threadflip (a service which I'm a power user and fan of, fyi) has just closed its $6.5M Series-A round.  —  The financing was set at around a $20-25 million post-money valuation according to a source. Threadflip Raises $6.5M From Shasta, Chris Sacca And Others, Launches Mobile App (Alexia Tsotsis/TechCrunch)Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:25:12 GMT Subscribe to...Read Full Story

Here’s a small selection of the more than 200 international media attending this year’s Web Summit: Matthew Bishop (The Economist)Nick Bilton (New York Times)Eric Eldon (TechCrunch)Alexia Tsotsis (TechCrunch)Mike Butcher (TechCrunch)David Kirkpatrick (Forbes, Techonomy)Ben Rooney (Wall Street Journal Europe)David Rowan (Wired UK)Robin Wauters (The Next Web)Martin Bryant (The Next Web)Om Malik (GigaOm)Mic Wright (Telegraph)Matt Cowan (Reuters TV)Lisa O’Carroll (The Guardian)Jamie Smyth...Read Full Story

On the 25th of June, our dearest Alexia Tsotsis had an incredibly rough day . First, her car was looted by very bad people in San Francisco, who stole her laptop and a pair of excellent Bose headphones that were near and dear to her heart.Read Full Story