Greg Kumparak (born September 10, 1987) is an Editor at the technology news website
TechCrunch
TechCrunch is an American online newspaper focusing on high tech and startup companies. It was founded in June 2005 by Archimedes Ventures, led by partners Michael Arrington and Keith Teare.
In 2010, AOL acquired the company for approximately $ ...
. He was an early addition to TechCrunch, joining when the site was still primarily operated out of the home of its founder,
Michael Arrington
J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970) is the American founder and former co-editor of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley technology start-up communities and the wider technology field in America and elsewhere. Magazines such as ...
.
Career
As a teenager, Kumparak gained notability within the tech community for his hacks and modification of early mobile devices, such as a
jailbreak that allowed users to install third-party applications on the otherwise locked
Helio Ocean
The Helio Ocean was a dual slider Internet-enabled multimedia wireless mobile device sold by mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) wireless carrier Helio, and manufactured by Pantech Curitel. A distinctive design feature of the Ocean was i ...
.
Kumparak joined TechCrunch in May 2008 at the age of 20. He ran TechCrunch's sister site, MobileCrunch, from 2008 to the end of 2010, when TechCrunch was acquired by AOL and the editors of its flagship sites (TechCrunch, TechCrunch UK, MobileCrunch, and CrunchGear) unified the sites under the TechCrunch brand.
As a reporter, Kumparak has broken hundreds of technology news stories, from word of ongoing venture capital deals to details of unannounced smartphones. He was an early proponent of the concept of “liveblogging”, in which an outlet covers an ongoing news event through a series of rolling textual updates.
He regularly appears on stage as an interviewer at TechCrunch's Disrupt conference, and as a judge in its regional startup pitch contests. He also appears frequently on TechCrunch's various video and podcast series, and as an occasional guest on the TechCrunch Radio show on
SiriusXM
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.
In 2011, Kumparak found and published a method for any
Facebook
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user to enable an early version of Facebook's then-private “Timeline” interface, which the company wouldn't publicly roll out to users until three months later.
Kumparak parted ways with TechCrunch in February 2012, but returned to the site in March 2013 at the request of newly incoming Editors-In-Chief,
Alexia Tsotsis and Eric Eldon.
In December 2012, Kumparak published a video demonstrating a project he'd worked on in his time away from TechCrunch: the tARdis, a miniature version of the
TARDIS
The TARDIS (; acronym for "Time And Relative Dimension In Space") is a fictional hybrid of the time machine and spacecraft that appears in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and its various spin-offs. Its exterior a ...
ship from the
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to simulate the “bigger on the inside” TARDIS interior often seen on the show. The project received international coverage from news outlets like