At first this came off to me as link bait and Arrington being a drama queen. But, surely these types of disagreements go on within every company and blogging about them is the ultimate in transparency as well as a chance for others to learn from TechCrunch. It may be reality blogging, but it's the reality of an extremely successful organization and leader, and that's something we can probably all learn from.
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