Sarah Lacy

Sarah Lacy, a 20-year award winning investigative journalist and author, is a serial entrepreneur. Founding and serving as CEO of PandoMedia and Chairman Mom, Lacy knows how to start a business.

In 2012, Lacy founded Pando, which consists of a daily technology blog and monthly event series titled "PandoMonthly." Lacy's startup, Chairman Mom, is a site built by women and for women and helps working mothers solve the toughest problems they face. She is well known in tech hot spots around the world for finding great entrepreneurs before most other reporters or venture capitalists do. Previously, she was the senior editor at TechCrunch.com, the largest blog on tech entrepreneurship in the world.

Lacy is the author of the critically acclaimed "Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0". Called the definitive book of the Web 2.0 movement, Once You're Lucky tells the story of how Web 2.0 was born through the eyes of the founders of companies like Facebook, Twitter, Slide, Digg, LinkedIn, and others. Her other works include "Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" and the empowering "A Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug: The Working Woman's Guide to Overthrowing the Patriarchy".

Before founding her own businesses, Lacy was a staff writer for Businessweek and the founding co-host of Yahoo! Finance's daily show "TechTicker." Lacy is a regular guest on NBC's Press:Here and various TV and radio outlets in the United States and around the world.