Irony Alert - TechCrunch Disses Spotify for Arrogance

TechCrunch's Sarah Lacy on Spotify's twt that they are now the No 2 music site in Europe and "closing in on the world title":

A lot of our startup heros have an arrogant swagger: Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs. (Some would even venture to say Michael Arrington…) Arrogance may even be a good thing. A grounded, humble company would never think it could beat huge, well-funded competitors.

But here’s the thing: When you’re going to be this arrogant for this long, you have to, at some point, show something to back it up. Just read the comments on every Spotify post we’ve done over time to see how weary even the fans are getting of the endless promises of a US launch and the blase downplaying that the labels may have an issue with, oh, say, giving away music for free. And, yet, we get this Tweet today announcing the company’s impending world domination.

Let’s ignore for a moment how few people actually pay for the service in Europe. Spotify, how about a single US deal before you spike the football?

For TechCrunch, surrounded by the creme of Silicon Valley hypesters, to call Spotify "arrogant" is - well, if Americans didn't understand irony before, this is it! Clearly Spotify's US PRs haven't handed over the month's protection money

Actually, I'm glad articles like this are still being written on AOLTC - partly so I can snark 'em, but more because my main worry with AOLTC is that, in order to secure Big Ad $, it will go all safe.