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I think everyone has their own style in journalism. Look, I'm a girl from the South! Sometimes I laugh. Someone can pejoratively call it giggling. But if you look at the body of my work, I ask lots of hard questions and break a lot of hard news.
- Sarah Lacy
#Journalism
#Look
#News
#Style
#Work
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.
- Sarah Lacy
#Accept
#Emotions
#Human
#Understand
#Way
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.
- Sarah Lacy
#Company
#Grow
#Hard
#Microscope
#Nice
Dying venture firms are like the walking dead. They can have years of staggering around with stakes in still active portfolio companies, hoping they're still holding a lottery ticket that could put them back in the game. If not, they just slowly wind down.
- Sarah Lacy
#Back
#Dead
#Game
#Walking
#Wind
Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere else, the glare of the media spotlight is more brutal, and the expectations are higher than they'd be in any other city.
- Sarah Lacy
#City
#Expectations
#Media
#More
#Valley
A lot of Americans desperately want to believe that China is full of poor people who can't innovate, and the only goods they make are cheap, toxic rip-offs our Western brands. They want to believe the only reason the Chinese economy is surging is because the West wants cheap goods and China knows how to make them that way.
- Sarah Lacy
#Believe
#People
#Poor
#Reason
#Way
The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses.
- Sarah Lacy
#Company
#Excuses
#Experience
#Ideas
Sometimes the hardest thing about committing the perfect crime can be keeping your genius to yourself.
- Sarah Lacy
#Genius
#Perfect
#Sometimes
#Yourself
Get a lawyer to look at your contract or beware. Because no company - evil or not - is going to do it for you.
- Sarah Lacy
#Beware
#Company
#Evil
#Lawyer
#Look
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 dollar bets on unproven ideas and inexperienced founders. People who can make decisions quickly, and who spend their time trying to help entrepreneurs make the most of that cash.
- Sarah Lacy
#Group
#Ideas
#People
#Smart
#Time
It's a great story for us whenever an entrepreneur makes a crazy amount of money and we get to tell the world about it. For the entrepreneur? Not so much. Hitherto unknown relatives, entrepreneurs seeking angel investments, money managers and supposed baby-mamas all come out of the woodwork with dollar signs in their eyes.
- Sarah Lacy
#Angel
#Eyes
#Great
#Money
#World
For all the billions of dollars created here, Silicon Valley is remarkably stingy when it comes to giving.
- Sarah Lacy
#Created
#Giving
#Here
#Stingy
#Valley
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 any different?
- Sarah Lacy
#Immigrants
#Roots
#Valley
#Why
#Women
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 like. They seek to outsmart the world.
- Sarah Lacy
#Everything
#Hacker
#Hackers
#Pure
#World
As smartphones have allowed us to have our computers, emails, social media feeds, and a full surveillance system in our pockets at all times, stories of the law enforcement's unease with that have been popping up in the press. And of course, the ones that become viral videos aren't exactly flattering for law enforcement.
- Sarah Lacy
#Computers
#Law
#Media
#Social Media
#Us
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