Sarah Lacy

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Award-winning journalist Sarah Lacy is editor-in-chief of TechCrunch. Her columns and articles cover Silicon Valley businesses, startups and emerging markets. She is the author of the book, Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0 (which also goes under the name The Stories of Facebook, YouTube and MySpace). Lacy also writes the "Valley Girl" column for BusinessWeek and serves as "Silicon Alley" correspondent for the Tech-Ticker blog.

Lacy graduated from Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, with a bachelor's degree in English literature.

Blog: Sarahlacy.com
Blog: www.techcrunch.com
Friendfeed: sarahcuda
Twitter: sarahcuda

Last updated: November 22, 2009.

Sarah Lacy
Sarah Lacy, taken by Doc Searls at LeWeb3 in Paris
Born	December 29, 1975 (1975-12-29) (age 33)

Sarah Miriam Lacy (born December 29, 1975 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American technology journalist^[1] and author.

She co-hosts web video show Yahoo! Tech Ticker^[2] and is a columnist at TechCrunch, BusinessWeek and Fox News.^[3]

She is noted for an interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the 2008 South by Southwest Interactive festival in which Zuckerberg told her she would have to actually ask questions and the audience staged what has been characterized as a revolt.^[4][5] Her response, posted on her Twitter account, was "Seriously screw all you guys. I did my best to ask a range of things."^[6]

She is the author of Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good, which also goes under the title "The Stories of Facebook, Youtube and Myspace".

References

1. ^ Bill Thompson (2008-03-09). "How Twitter makes it real". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7287536.stm. 
2. ^ Liz Gannes (2008-02-11). "Q&A: Yahoo Tech Ticker's Sarah Lacy". NewTeeVee. http://newteevee.com/2008/02/11/qa-yahoo-tech-tickers-sarah-lacy/. 
3. ^ Spencer E. Ante and Catherine Holahan (2008-03-10). "Facebook CEO Admits Missteps". BusinessWeek. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2008/tc2008037_151923.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives. 
4. ^ Lewis Wallace (2008-03-09). "SXSW: Zuckerberg Keynote Descends Into Chaos as Audience Takes Over". Wired. http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/sxsw-mark-zucke.html. 
5. ^ Daniel Terdiman (2008-03-08). "Journalist becomes the story at Mark Zuckerberg SXSWi keynote". CNN. http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9889528-52.html?tag=nefd.pop. 
6. ^ Sarah Lacy (2008-03-09). "Twitter / Sarah Lacy: seriously screw all you guy...". Twitter. http://twitter.com/sarahcuda/statuses/769000309. 

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