Sarah Lacy
Sarah Lacy
Sarah Ruth Lacyis an American technology journalist and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth29 December 1975
CountryUnited States of America
china dismissed growth hub markets money numbers people saying showing silicon talent valley wake
Some people have blithely dismissed growth in markets like China and India, saying Silicon Valley will always be the hub for tech: that everyone will come to us. Wake up: Because the numbers are showing money and talent is increasingly going elsewhere.
awesome breaks markets paying unfairly
What's awesome about the Internet is how it breaks up monopolistic markets where middlemen unfairly gobble up outsized fees, leaving us little choice but to keep paying them.
ideas excuse funding
The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experiences. It's excuses.
media people world
One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.
nice guessing glare
One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.
zuckerberg challenges way
If Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand something, it's not defeat. It's not even something he has to accept. It's merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships.
impact people done
To me, the last mile of the Internet that very few people have successfully really done. And this is like micro local. Things that really impact your life. And noone's leveraging that yet.
passion swinging-for-the-fences two
I did interviews with most of the TechCrunch50 experts backstage and there was a common gripe about the companies launching there: Not enough passion, not enough swinging for the fences, not enough trying to change the world... One big exception was CitySourced - a company that excited Kevin Rose precisely because it was trying to build something that doesn't really exist today and would make a huge difference in people's lives. It was the most excited I saw an expert about anything over the two-day event.
answers whole
I've got a whole lotta questions, and not so many answers.
banks meltdown needed reckless safe saw time turned west
The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned over to the Wild West of the Net. Then the credit meltdown hit, and we saw just how reckless these so-called safe and regulated institutions were.