Sarah Lacy

I am a meat-loving Southern girl. Add in being a writer, and that means I drink more than I should, too.

— Sarah Lacy

For all the billions of dollars created here, Silicon Valley is remarkably stingy when it comes to giving.

— Sarah Lacy

The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses.

— Sarah Lacy

The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.

— Sarah Lacy

Sometimes the hardest thing about committing the perfect crime can be keeping your genius to yourself.

— Sarah Lacy

What created Silicon Valley was a culture of openness, and there is no future to Silicon Valley without it.

— Sarah Lacy

I'm not really comfortable unless there's some kind of risk - either physical or mental.

— Sarah Lacy

The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experiences. It's excuses.

— Sarah Lacy

It's almost a cliche that great Silicon Valley entrepreneurs don't go sit on a beach when they make a lot of money;…

— Sarah Lacy

The roots of Silicon Valley are full of stories of immigrants and minority groups who experienced bigotry and made it anyway. Why…

— Sarah Lacy

I don't care if Facebook's valuation goes to one gillion. It can go so high we have to make up numbers. It…

— Sarah Lacy

Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild…

— Sarah Lacy

A lot of the books that have been written about Silicon Valley are really good. Michael Malone's books are incredible. I think…

— Sarah Lacy

One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow…

— Sarah Lacy

People always tell me the next stage of my career means moving to New York, but I never will. I don't care…

— Sarah Lacy

Benefitting from a job bubble is not only a first world problem, it's an upper-class-educated-lucky-to-be-in-the-right-industry-at-the-right-time kind of first world problem.

— Sarah Lacy

You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the bulk of it was built…

— Sarah Lacy

You know what works in venture capital? A group of incredibly smart, connected people who have the financial wherewithal and risk appetite…

— Sarah Lacy

Lesson to would-be fame seekers: It's not really a new world when it comes to celebrity. There are no shortcuts. It's still…

— Sarah Lacy

Stop looking at the Web as merely a display opportunity and not a way to interact. That does not create a new…

— Sarah Lacy

As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy…

— Sarah Lacy

I think everyone has their own style in journalism. Look, I'm a girl from the South! Sometimes I laugh. Someone can pejoratively…

— Sarah Lacy

I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense…

— Sarah Lacy

A lot of Americans desperately want to believe that China is full of poor people who can't innovate, and the only goods…

— Sarah Lacy

I did interviews with most of the TechCrunch50 experts backstage and there was a common gripe about the companies launching there: Not…

— Sarah Lacy

“It’s only after living through a decade of these three attacks, watching these other journalists get attacked, watching the 2016 presidential election,…

— Sarah Lacy

“Women getting run out of tech matters, because it’s where so much of the wealth creation and opportunity in the economy is…

— Sarah Lacy

It may be easier than ever to start a product, but building a company is just as hard as its ever been.

— Sarah Lacy

You can keep your privacy in the world by keeping your product, not your personality, the star.

— Sarah Lacy

Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.

— Sarah Lacy

I've got a whole lotta questions, and not so many answers.

— Sarah Lacy

I always want to have San Francisco as my home and my base. I'm a business reporter - that's what I do…

— Sarah Lacy

What's awesome about the Internet is how it breaks up monopolistic markets where middlemen unfairly gobble up outsized fees, leaving us little…

— Sarah Lacy

To me, the last mile of the Internet that very few people have successfully really done. And this is like micro local.…

— Sarah Lacy

This 'oh let's hug it out' without taking any responsibility is exactly the problem. ... We are not silly irrational little girls.…

— Sarah Lacy

Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere else, the glare of the…

— Sarah Lacy

Get a lawyer to look at your contract or beware. Because no company - evil or not - is going to do…

— Sarah Lacy

One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created…

— Sarah Lacy

I am honest enough with myself to admit it. I rarely offer strong opinions, I have a backbone like a pair of…

— Sarah Lacy

Unions inherently create an 'us versus them' dynamic that makes winning against a company's management the top goal, not serving customers, innovating,…

— Sarah Lacy