Sarah Lacy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Ideas #Excuse #Funding
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

#Nice #Guessing #Glare
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

#Zuckerberg #Challenges #Way
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

#Reality #Zuckerberg #World
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 a serious business with investments from the biggest VCs in the Valley.
-- Sarah Lacy

#Girl #Running #Silly
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 That does not create a new business model, it just shifts one that isn't growing and is outdated. The reason sites like Google are stealing advertisers from daily newspapers is not because Google has more eyeballs. It's because Google used the interactivity of the Web to deliver a new, better way to advertise.
-- Sarah Lacy

#Opportunity #Google #Growing
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 impact your life. And noone's leveraging that yet.
-- Sarah Lacy

#Impact #People #Done
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 enough swinging for the fences, not enough trying to change the world... One big exception was CitySourced - a company that excited Kevin Rose precisely because it was trying to build something that doesn't really exist today and would make a huge difference in people's lives. It was the most excited I saw an expert about anything over the two-day event.
-- Sarah Lacy

#Passion #Two #Differences
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 love affair, with as much turmoil, frustration, exasperation and need as a forbidden liaison.
-- Sarah Lacy

#Art #Passion #Frustration
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 am terrified of not being approved of.
-- Sarah Lacy

#Strong #Doors #Pairs
I've got a whole lotta questions, and not so many answers.
-- Sarah Lacy

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

#Art #Passion #Important
You can keep your privacy in the world by keeping your product, not your personality, the star.
-- Sarah Lacy

#Stars #Personality #World
It may be easier than ever to start a product, but building a company is just as hard as its ever been.
-- Sarah Lacy

#May #Building #Easier

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