Thompson departs TechCrunch for AI startups podcast

Walter Thompson

TechCrunch editorial manager Walter Thompson has left the publication to host a podcast about artificial intelligence startups.

The podcast is called “Fund/Build/Scale.”

Thompson has been with TechCrunch since September 2019 had also been a senior editor. He ran the website’s guest contributor program, which includes paywalled business-related articles for startup founders and investors that appear on TechCrunch+, as well as columns and opinion pieces that run on TechCrunch.

He previously was vice president of content at Stronghold.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.