Sarah Lacy
Sarah Lacy
Sarah Lacy | |
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 Sarah Lacy, taken by Doc Searls at LeWeb3 in Paris | |
| Born | December 29, 1975 Memphis, Tennessee |
| Alma mater | Rhodes College |
Sarah Lacy | |
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Sarah Lacy, taken by Doc Searls at LeWeb3 in Paris | |
| Born | December 29, 1975 Memphis, Tennessee |
| Alma mater | Rhodes College |
Early life
Lacy received her B.A. in literature from Rhodes College.[2]
Career
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
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 consists of a daily technology blog and a monthly event series entitled "PandoMonthly".
A series of emails from 2012 indicate Sarah 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 Sarah Lacy, and suggested a $1 million dollar smear campaign,[8][9] after Pando Daily featured a story [10] criticizing the misogynist practices and culture of Uber.