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Sarah Lacy

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Sarah Lacy
Lacy at LeWeb3 in Paris
Born (1975-12-29) December 29, 1975 (age 48)
Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
EducationRhodes College (BA)
Occupations
Awards
  • In 2012, Forbes named Lacy one of the top 20 most influential businesswomen in the world.

Sarah Ruth Lacy (born December 29, 1975) is an American technology journalist[1] and author.

Early life

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Lacy received her B.A. in literature from Rhodes College.[2]

Career

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Lacy is the former co-host of web video show Yahoo! Tech Ticker[3] and was a columnist at BusinessWeek.[4]

Lacy was a columnist at TechCrunch until November 19, 2011.[5]

She is the author of 3 books: Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good (2008), which also goes under the title The Stories of Facebook, Youtube and Myspace; Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos (2011); and A Uterus Is A Feature, Not A Bug (2017).

PandoDaily

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In 2012, Lacy founded technology news site PandoDaily with a reported $2.5m investment from investors including Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Tony Hsieh, David Sze, Jim Breyer, Reid Hoffman, Chris Dixon and Josh Kopelman.[6] The site consisted of a daily technology blog and a monthly event series entitled "PandoMonthly".

A series of emails from 2012 indicated Lacy was involved in a dispute regarding an event PandoDaily hosted in 2012 at event space Cross Campus in Los Angeles.[7]

On November 17, 2014, then-Uber executive Emil Michael allegedly said Uber should consider hiring a team of opposition researchers to dig up dirt on critics in the media including Lacy, and suggested a $1 million smear campaign,[8][9] after PandoDaily featured a story[10] criticizing the misogynist practices and culture of Uber.

On October 23, 2019, Lacy sold PandoDaily to BuySellAds.[11] Lacy cites the history of harassment, threats, and betrayals she saw and experienced in the Silicon Valley area as the reason for her exit.

Chairman Mom

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Lacy co-founded Chairman Mom, a subscription-based question-and-answer forum targeted at working mothers, in April 2018.[12]

Recognition

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In 2012, Forbes named Lacy one of the top 20 most influential businesswomen in the world.

References

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  1. ^ Thompson, Bill (2008-03-09). "How Twitter makes it real". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  2. ^ Lindsay, Greg (2008-06-18). "So What Do You Do, Sarah Lacy, Author, Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good?". Mediabistro. Archived from the original on 2013-06-02. Retrieved December 25, 2014.
  3. ^ Gannes, Liz (2008-02-11). "Q&A: Yahoo Tech Ticker's Sarah Lacy". NewTeeVee. Archived from the original on 2008-02-14.
  4. ^ Ante, Spencer E.; Holahan, Catherine (2008-03-10). "Facebook CEO Admits Missteps". BusinessWeek. Archived from the original on March 13, 2008.
  5. ^ Lacy, Sarah (2011-11-19). "The TechCrunch Drama Continues". Predictably Rabid. Archived from the original on 2011-11-24.
  6. ^ Malik, Om (2012-01-16). "Sarah Lacy's PandoDaily launches with $2.5 million in funding". Old GigaOm. Archived from the original on 2022-04-30.
  7. ^ Biddle, Sam (2013-08-15). "PandoDaily's Threatening Email Meltdown". Valleywag. Archived from the original on 2013-09-19.
  8. ^ Kastrenakes, Jacob (2014-11-18). "Uber executive casually threatens journalist with smear campaign". The Verge. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  9. ^ Smith, Ben (2014-11-18). "Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt On Journalists". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  10. ^ Lacy, Sarah (2014-10-22). "The horrific trickle down of Asshole culture: Why I've just deleted Uber from my phone". Pando. Archived from the original on 2014-12-02.
  11. ^ Zaveri, Paayal (2019-10-24). "Sarah Lacy, the founder of Pando, is selling the blog, quitting journalism, and ditching Silicon Valley after 20 years because she is tired of being sexually harassed and threatened". Business Insider France. Archived from the original on 2020-09-21. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  12. ^ Dickey, Megan Rose (2018-04-04). "Sarah Lacy launches Chairman Mom, a social platform for working mothers". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
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