Michael Arrington. Biography[edit] Born in Orange, California, Arrington grew up in Huntington Beach, California and Surrey, England, attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a major in economics.
He went on to Stanford Law School and graduated in 1995. He practiced corporate and securities law at O’Melveny & Myers, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.[5] Arrington left the practice of law to join Real Names, which failed after raising $100M.[3] Arrington was co-founder of Achex, an internet payments company, which was sold to First Data Corp for US$32 million and is now the back end of Western Union online. CrunchNotes. TechCrunch. Michael Arrington (TechCrunch)