50 Days Of Logos

Michael Arrington

J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

Monday, September 6th, 2010

Last week we changed the TechCrunch logo for a day to salute Twitter – specifically the first crazy Twitter logo with no vowels. And we had so much fun doing it that we decided to keep doing it. Starting today and for the next 50 days we’ll change our logo every day to high five some interesting or important startup. And there will be a few surprises too.

If you miss one you’ll be able to see the archives on this page, and we’ve also added a link to the top of TechCrunch so people will know what’s going on. And yes, we’ve allocated a few slots to sponsored logos as well, you can see details on that information page.

Thanks to Audrey Fukuman for creating these logos.

First up is Facebook, which seems fitting since we are now firmly in the Age of Facebook. Who’s tomorrow? Come back in 24 hours and see for yourself!

Company: Facebook
Website: facebook.com
Launch Date: February 1, 2004
IPO: NASDAQ:FB

Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 1 billion monthly active users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. The original...

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