Marco Arment

Marco Arment
Portrait of Marco Arment
Born (1982-06-11) June 11, 1982
Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Nationality American
Education Allegheny College
Occupation iOS developer, Web developer, podcaster
Known for Tumblr, Instapaper, Bugshot, Overcast, Build and Analyze, Neutral, Accidental Tech Podcast, The Magazine, Peace
Spouse(s) Tiffany Arment
Website www.marco.org

Marco Arment (born June 11, 1982) is an American iOS and Web developer, as well as a technology writer and former magazine editor, living in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.[1] He is known for co-founding Tumblr, creating Instapaper, and Overcast.

Education

Arment attended Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Career

Arment worked as lead developer and chief technology officer (CTO) of the Tumblr microblogging platform and social networking website from its inception in February 2007 until September 2010,[2][3][4] when he left to concentrate fully on Instapaper,[5][6][7] a tool for saving web pages to read later. Arment announced on April 25, 2013, that he had sold the controlling interest in Instapaper to Betaworks.[8]

Between November 2010 and December 2012, Arment hosted a podcast, Build and Analyze, with Dan Benjamin on 5by5 Studios. More recently, he has hosted two podcasts, Neutral and Accidental Tech Podcast, with John Siracusa and Casey Liss. He also hosts Top Four[9] with his wife Tiffany Arment and Under the Radar[10] with David Smith, both on Relay FM.

In October 2012, Arment released The Magazine, an electronic, biweekly publication. In May 2013, one month after the sale of Instapaper, Arment announced he was selling The Magazine to Glenn Fleishman, its editor.[11]

In July 2013,[12] Marco released Bugshot;[13] an application to quickly mark up screenshots so that beta testers of Overcast could easily send him bug reports. Marco sold Bugshot to Lickability[14][15] and the app was renamed to Pinpoint.[16]

In July 2014, Arment released Overcast, a podcast application for iOS. The application had been in development since the fall of 2012, and was first publicly announced at the XOXO Festival in October 2013.[17][18] In 2014 Marco invested $50,000 into Gimlet Media.[19]

On September 16, 2015, Arment released Peace, a Safari content blocker for iOS 9 using the Ghostery database.[20] After Peace had held the top spot on the App Store's list of paid apps for 36 hours, Arment pulled it from the App Store, stating he didn't "feel good" with its resounding success.[21] He elaborated, "While [ad blockers] do benefit a ton of people in major ways, they also hurt some, including many who don't deserve the hit."[22]

His blog, which he began in December 2006, averages over 500,000 page views per month as of July 2014.[23]

References

  1. ↑ Williams, Alex. "Creating Hipsturbia". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  2. ↑ Frommer, Dan. "Tumblr CTO Steps Down To Focus On Instapaper, Independent Career". Business Insider. Business Insider Inc. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  3. ↑ Arment, Marco. "About". Marco.org. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  4. ↑ "About". Tumblr. Tumblr, Inc. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  5. ↑ Bilton, Nick. "Instapaper Goes From Hobby to Start-Up". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  6. ↑ Dishman, Lydia. "Instapaper Founder Marco Arment's Journey From Bagel Jockey to Publishing Pioneer". Fast Company. Fast Company, Inc. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  7. ↑ Tsotsis, Alexia. "Marco Arment Leaves Tumblr To Devote Himself To Instapaper". TechCrunch. AOL Inc. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  8. ↑ Arment, Marco. "The next generation of Instapaper". Marco.org. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  9. ↑ https://www.relay.fm/topfour
  10. ↑ http://www.relay.fm/radar
  11. ↑ Arment, Marco. "I Sold The Magazine, Too". Marco.org. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  12. ↑ http://www.marco.org/2013/07/17/bugshot
  13. ↑ http://www.marco.org/bugshot
  14. ↑ http://www.marco.org/2015/05/28/pinpoint
  15. ↑ http://lickability.com/pinpoint/
  16. ↑ https://www.macstories.net/ios/bugshot-relaunches-as-pinpoint/
  17. ↑ Arment, Marco. "Overcast". Marco.org. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
  18. ↑ Panzarino, Matthew. "Why Marco Arment Built a Podcast App". TechCrunch. AOL Inc. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  19. ↑ "Alex Blumberg on StartUp podcast, Gimlet Media and the future of podcasting".
  20. ↑ Toor, Amar (September 17, 2015). "Peace is a $2.99 ad-blocking app for iOS 9 from the maker of Instapaper". The Verge. Vox Media. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
  21. ↑ Greenberg, Julia (September 18, 2015). "Developer Pulls Most Popular Ad Blocker From iOS App Store". Wired. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on September 18, 2015. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
  22. ↑ Arment, Marco. "Just doesn't feel good". Marco.org. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  23. ↑ Arment, Marco. "Sponsorship". Marco.org. Retrieved July 26, 2014.

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