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Sarah Lacy, taken by Doc Searls at LeWeb3 in Paris
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Born |
Memphis, Tennessee |
December 29, 1975
Alma mater | Rhodes College |
Sarah Ruth Lacy (born December 29, 1975) is an American technology journalist and author.
Lacy received her B.A. in literature from Rhodes College.
Lacy is the former co-host of web video show Yahoo! Tech Ticker and was a columnist at BusinessWeek.
Lacy was a columnist at TechCrunch until November 19, 2011.
She is the author of 2 books: Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good (2008), which also goes under the title The Stories of Facebook, Youtube and Myspace; as well as Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos (2011).
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. 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.
On November 20, 2014, Lacy said that Uber, the car service, goes after journalists.