Steve O'hear

Steve O’listen is pleasant known as a generation journalist, presently at TechCrunch wherein he makes a speciality of ecu startups, groups and merchandise.

He first joined TechCrunch in November 2009 as Contributing Editor for TechCrunch Europe, wherein he labored along Editor Mike Butcher to help construct TechCrunch’s coverage in Europe.

In June 2011, Steve took a break from journalism to co-determined the London and Prague-based startup Beepl. In his

role as CEO, he helped the organization raise its first VC round, along side seeing the question & solution web site thru improvement, non-public alpha and a excessive profile public release. In November 2012, Beepl was acquired via logo Embassy.

together with TechCrunch, Steve has written for numerous guides, which includes ZDNet (wherein he wrote the nicely-respected weblog ‘The Social net’), The mother or father, Macworld, TES, Last100 and ReadWriteWeb. He additionally wrote and directed the severely acclaimed Silicon Valley documentary ‘looking for the Valley’, which turned into released in September 2006.

In 2002, Steve became made a fellow of the country wide Endowment for technology, era and the humanities. He’s additionally one half of ProtoBake Labs, an ‘thoughts incubator’ he co-founded with Pete Harris.