Henry Pickavet

Henry Pickavet

Director of Editorial Operations

Henry Pickavet is the Director of Editorial Operations. Prior to joining TechCrunch, Henry had a hand in a number of online and print publications, including InternetNews.com as chief copy editor and Government Technology Magazine as managing editor. He also did a stint in Sydney as group editor of RBI Australia\’s manufacturing group, which is when he also developed an affinity (a love, really) for cricket. He has a bachelor\’s in English from California State University, Chico, and a master\’s in Liberal Studies from the New School for Social Research in New York.

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TechCrunch podcasts roundup: Bill Gates on climate, the current health of fintech, and Latashá on what web3 offers artists

Henry Pickavet
TechCrunch is more than just a site with words. We’re also building a growing stable of podcasts focused on the most critical topics relating to the startup and venture capital worlds. Embedded bel

TechCrunch podcasts roundup: Aaron Levie on web3, more from WWDC and the LatAm startup scene

Henry Pickavet
TechCrunch is more than just a site with words. We’re also building a growing stable of podcasts focused on the most critical topics relating to the startup and venture capital worlds. Embedded

Daily Crunch: Spotify and Ford make acquisitions

Henry Pickavet
Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.

Daily Crunch: Google’s first retail location opened today in NYC

Henry Pickavet
Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.

Daily Crunch: In $1.2B deal, EV battery maker Solid Power files to go public

Henry Pickavet
Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.

Daily Crunch: The Nubank EC-1

Henry Pickavet
Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.

TechCrunch’s Equity podcast wins a Webby Award

Henry Pickavet
Today, the fine folks at the Webbys announced that TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, Equity, is the best of its kind in the technology category. We’re stoked! Alex Wilhelm, Natasha Mascarenhas and Da

Daily Crunch: Lemonade says website security flaw that exposed customer data is ‘by design’

Henry Pickavet
Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.

Rep. Barbara Lee says the pipeline problem is ‘a total myth’

Henry Pickavet
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-13 California) took time out of her busy schedule to join us for TechCrunch Sessions: Justice. During our wide-ranging discussion, she talked about the issues in tech that unfortun

Learn about creating equity in tech with Rep. Barbara Lee at TechCrunch Sessions: Justice

Henry Pickavet
Rep. Barbara Lee, who has represented the East Bay of California since 1998, is one of Congress’s staunchest proponents of diversity in tech. Representing Oakland, Emeryville and other cities nestle

Learn about the importance of accessible product design at TechCrunch Sessions: Justice

Henry Pickavet
When you are able to navigate a world that is designed for you, it’s easy to avoid thinking about how the world is designed for you. But it can be different if you are disabled. At TechCrunch Sessio

Mixtape podcast: Behind the curtain of diversity theater

Henry Pickavet,  Megan Rose Dickey
It’s fair to say that most people have heard about diversity reports. And it’s probably also fair to say that most of us have watched, sometimes with a metaphorical bucket of buttered popcorn, as

Mixtape podcast: Artificial intelligence and disability

Henry Pickavet,  Megan Rose Dickey
 Welcome back to Mixtape, the TechCrunch podcast that looks at the human element that powers technology. For this episode we spoke with Meredith Whittaker, co-founder of the AI Now Institute and Mi

Mixtape podcast: Making technology accessible for everyone

Henry Pickavet,  Megan Rose Dickey
Welcome back to Mixtape, the TechCrunch podcast that examines diversity, inclusion and the human labor that drives tech. This week, Megan moderated a panel at Sight Tech Global, a conference dedicated

Mixtape podcast: Building a structural DEI response to a systemic issue with Y-Vonne Hutchinson

Henry Pickavet,  Megan Rose Dickey
It’s time for another episode of Mixtape, where we take a look at diversity, inclusion, equity and the human labor that powers tech. This week we spoke to Y-Vonne Hutchinson, the CEO of ReadySet, a

Mixtape podcast: Wellness in the time of the struggle 

Henry Pickavet,  Megan Rose Dickey
We’re back with another episode of Mixtape. This week Marah Lidey, co-founder and co-CEO of Shine, joins us to discuss mental health, venture capital, portfolio diversity and connecting with other f

Mixtape Podcast: Proposition 22 and the labor divide

Henry Pickavet,  Megan Rose Dickey
California’s Proposition 22 is the most funded and perhaps one of the most contentious ballot measures in the state’s history. To date, the Yes on 22 side has put north of $185 million into th

The 2019 TechCrunch Include Report

Henry Pickavet,  Matthew Panzarino
It’s no secret that the tech industry is historically white, straight and male. Despite promises to examine and reform hiring practices so that tech companies big and small better reflect the world

SeeHow helps cricketers train smarter

Henry Pickavet
Like baseball, cricket relies on grass, dirt, wood, cork, spit, spin, drop and rise en route to either victory or loss. And like baseball — and just about any other sport, really — cricket

Startups Weekly: In a crowded field of unicorns, ClassPass becomes another unicorn

Henry Pickavet
I hope you’ve all had a good week. Normally I’m behind the scenes (where I’m most comfortable), but I’ll be managing the Startups Weekly newsletter until I assign it to someone else. M
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