Sarah Lacy Quotes

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• It may be easier than ever to start a product, but building a company is just as hard as its ever been.
• You can keep your privacy in the world by keeping your product, not your personality, the star.
• Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.
• I've got a whole lotta questions, and not so many answers.
• I am honest enough with myself to admit it. I rarely offer strong opinions, I have a backbone like a pair of bifold doors, and…
• 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 passion, an ecstatic…
• 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…
• 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…
• Stop looking at the Web as merely a display opportunity and not a way to interact. That does not create a new business model, it…
• Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don't…
• 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…
• 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…
• This 'oh let's hug it out' without taking any responsibility is exactly the problem. ... We are not silly irrational little girls. We are running…
• One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.
• Few people would doubt that Mark Zuckerberg would build a great product. But I, at least, would never have expected him to become so great…
• The roots of Silicon Valley are full of stories of immigrants and minority groups who experienced bigotry and made it anyway. Why should women be…
• Sometimes the hardest thing about committing the perfect crime can be keeping your genius to yourself.
• You know what works in venture capital? A group of incredibly smart, connected people who have the financial wherewithal and risk appetite to make multi-million…
• For all the billions of dollars created here, Silicon Valley is remarkably stingy when it comes to giving.
• What created Silicon Valley was a culture of openness, and there is no future to Silicon Valley without it.

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