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| Born | December 29, 1975 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Education | Rhodes College (BA) |
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Sarah Ruth Lacy (born December 29, 1975) is an American technology journalist [1] and author.
Sarah Lacy | |
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| Lacy at LeWeb3 in Paris | |
| Born | December 29, 1975 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Education | Rhodes College (BA) |
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Sarah Ruth Lacy (born December 29, 1975) is an American technology journalist [1] and author.
Lacy received her B.A. in literature from Rhodes College. [2]
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).
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.
Lacy co-founded Chairman Mom, a subscription-based question-and-answer forum targeted at working mothers, in April 2018. [12]
In 2012, Forbes named Lacy one of the top 20 most influential businesswomen in the world.
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