Just in case anyone thinks that we just don’t have heroes like MLK anymore, I have two words for you: Sarah Lacy. Lacy used to write for TechCrunch, but left last year to start her own project. That project, a news site titled PandoDaily, has launched today. Why should you care? Because with this site Lacy has single-handedly ended sexism for all women everywhere! In one of the first posts on the site, titled “Wait a Minute. I’m a Woman AND I Started a Company?” Lacy explains how she did that whole feminism thing better than any of us could ever hope to achieve:
Aside from all this, there’s a nice side-benefit about starting PandoDaily: I can officially now call bullshit on people (usually men) who insist women don’t start companies in the Valley, because men don’t let them.
For the record: I experienced zero sexism during the process of raising money for PandoDaily. And that’s remarkable, considering I actually took my newborn baby on most pitch meetings with me. He even had a blow-out in Andreessen Horowitz’s offices. (For those who aren’t parents, a “blow-out” isn’t a hair treatment. It involves an exploding diaper. Sorry for the visual. It wasn’t pretty for AH either.) I can’t think of many industries where a new mom could bring a baby to meetings and still get a job.
That’s right catladies! If Sarah Lacy can start a business, that means any woman can! She even brought her infant son to meetings and men did NOT run away screaming! Think what this means for mothers all around the country. Forget babysitters, just take your kids with you to work and let them run wild. You’ll get promoted before lunch hour. Children should start paying you back as soon as possible for the 18 years and 9 months of freeloading they all get, it’s only fair.
Then again, maybe I’m being a bit hard on Sarahcuda, she’s not actually saying that sexism is over, per se:
I’m not saying there’s no sexism in the Valley. Like many women, I’ve certainly experienced it here and there, mostly from sad people who aren’t happy with the point they’re at in their own careers. But as I’ve said before, it’s on the margins, it’s nothing a determined entrepreneur can’t overcome and it’s something that should make you stronger.
That’s right, the only sexists around are pathetic, sad losers who don’t have any power anyway! And since Lacy is a woman, remember, her own personal experience can be used to extrapolate to all women everywhere. The glass ceiling is imaginary, if you’re a woman and you don’t get that promotion, or can’t get funding to start your business you have no one to blame but yourself. I mean, if Sarah Lacy can leverage her network of rich and powerful men, all of whom have money to burn, to fund her project then any woman can just…
Wait…
I could see how taking your kid to a meeting would be a good idea…if your product concerned kids.
I think she was thinking more along the lines of “proxy shitting.”
SHE’S A RENEGADE IN A RENEGADE’S INDUSTRY STOP THINKING NON RENEGADE THOUGHTS. STOP BEING “mostly from sad people who aren’t happy”
One more web site I will never be visiting.
Why do you hate feminism?
No, just poor uninteresting writing. I was half expecting a baby blog from her though, so maybe I am sexist.
“mostly from sad people who aren’t happy”
This should really be the tagline of GOMI.
Commentary “mostly from sad people who aren’t happy”
I feel sad sometimes, but it’s only just struck me that I’m also not happy.
Sarah’s a genius. is she sure it isn’t life coaching she should be doing?
BUT ARE YOU FAT?
SO FAT.
Size 4.
oops, saw your typo.
4X
fixed it for you :) You’re welcome!
Arrington invested. His delusion is bedazzling:
“She was immediately integrated into the TechCrunch DNA. She was a solid editorial leader, broke huge stories, and had a commanding stage and camera presence… Sarah was one (or ten) steps ahead of her competition and not only broke the story but worked it over and over until she’d bled every last drop of blood out of it.”
Sarah’s TechCrunch articles from the past 6 months include:
- Tony Fadell Demos His New Thermostat
- Build an App for MyHeritage and Win $10,000
- YCharts Adds Dividend Tracking
- Uber Calls TechCrunch’s Bluff, Opens Actual Lemonade Stand
“Sarah was one (or ten) steps ahead of her competition and not only broke the story but worked it over and over until she’d bled every last drop of blood out of it.”
Could someone cue Fatso into the fact that a good journalist knows when to sign off on a subject and doesn’t keep worrying it into a small pile of oily rags?
On the other hand, she managed to get where she is today looking and acting the way she does today, so maybe she has a point after all.
“I experienced no lookism in my venture! And no personalityism either!”
Moron.
Seriously, I cannot stand her ass. She did just say, correct me if I am wrong, that because she never experienced it, sexism no longer exists. Right? She also wrote this:
“mostly from sad people who aren’t happy”
Im pretty sure most people who aren’t dumb because they know things, think you are an idiot because you know nothing.
Well this is Sarah Lacy, who claimed that because she didn’t know anyone who lost a job or a house, that there was no recession. Her perspective is limited to her own ass.
Her concept of sexism is awkward: “I can officially now call bullshit on people (usually men) who insist women don’t start companies in the Valley, because men don’t let them.”
So, it’s men who insist that women don’t start companies because the aforementioned men “don’t let them”. In other words, men are blaming themselves?
Am I reading that correctly? Or is she just an idiot?
By her logic then, stating that she’s proving those men wrong by starting her own business (financed, it appears, by men) only demonstrates that men will, in fact, let women start businesses, not that (a) women don’t need men or (b) that she’s broken some sort of stereotype.
You beat me to it, but yeah.
I can officially now call bullshit on people (usually men) who insist women don’t start companies in the Valley, because men don’t let them.
Maybe this is my experience & mine only, but it’s never men who I hear complaining that women are held back, & honestly, I don’t even hear that many women complaining as I used to.
No she really is an idiot. Honestly. I know that term is flung around a lot, but she is one.
And she has really bad hair.
What the hell is a Pando Daily?? Seriously, what does that mean?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
She explains it all here: http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/16/why-i-started-pandodaily/
Basically Pando is the name of the world’s largest known superorganism: a colony of trees whose roots all intertwine with each other underground, making it a single organism with a vast underground network. Blah blah blah Sarahcuda compares it to Silicon Valley and startups and I didn’t bother reading the entire post.
She is going to be the DEAL SITE OF RECORD or some such nonsense. Right now it just seems like the usual dumbass Silly Valley gossip a la TechCrunch, so.
It basically sounds like Michael Arrington is funding another TechCrunch and making Sarah Lacy the nominal head. Michael gets to build another LORD OF ALL TECH DECISIONS site and continue to be the arrogant blowhard former lawyer he always was while pretending to be this awesome guy on the forefront of helping women entrepreneurs. Sarah Lacy gets a vanity title to put on her “Hello My Name Is” tags at CES and SXSW and continues to not have to find an actual job. Everyone wins, yay SV circle jerking!
Thanks, I refuse to look at her site. Well I’m glad her site is living up to my expectations already — stupid and self-important.
Does she realize that bringing her new baby to an office for a meeting and then talking about his poop isn’t shattering ANY female stereotypes AT ALL?
Also, it’s already been done.
Maybe it means she’ll move to Vermont soon to start making applesauce!?
And take pictures of herself naked on a tractor? Woo hoo!
That movie is one of the worst examples of the 1980s cinematic mainstream backlash against career women – give up your dream career for a kid you don’t even want! Go on and do it! It’s what you really want to do deep down!
Why Diane Keaton why?
This. Thank you. I read the first few paragraphs of her “Oh wowz lookit ME i’m makin’ it better for ALLLLLL THE GURLZZ” launch post… But then had to re-read a few times to believe that she’d spent that initial opportunity describing how super-awesome and empowering it was that she’d toted her kid around to some meetings.
Yeah, thanks for busting down those stereotypes about working mothers, Sarah. I guess that’ll it do it for now… How can the women of America thank you?
Shut up sarah we all know the real groundbreaking feminist valley founder with vagina pride is hello britty, founder and most craftiest geek grrrl. Our lady of spray mount and c/o Target crafts only did it with her husbands help. Take that.
Nice one SNC.
You guys, Sarah Lacy HAD A BABY and she also STARTED A WEBSITE that provides lots of blah-blah insider chat for other tech startups. We should all bow down and worship her.
Also, Sarah? Your business is a news and chat site. Try being a woman entrepreneur who is actually on the tech side and then report back to me about how little sexism you encounter. Of course, that would have to involve your knowing either jack or shit about actual tech, instead of dumbass tech gossip, so I’m not holding my breath.
Sarah Lacy writes words on the Internet! That makes her a ~*~woman in tech~*~!
You must be a sad person who isn’t happy, denigrating Sarah’s credentials like that. Also, sexism.
If she really wants to discuss sexism and difficulties for mothers in the workplace, she should try having a baby and GOING to a workplace, where she HAS to work 40+ hours a week for a male boss and CAN’T bring Baby Blow Out in without everyone rolling their eyes.
Sarah, you got money from your male friends to start a website that’s going to fail. You have the financial stability to dabble in things without worrying about supporting your family. You don’t care who takes you seriously, because you’re happy to play the woman card any chance you get to scare off the men. You’re not making strides for women. You’re privileged and obnoxious.
Yeah I just interviewed for a job where I will have to work at least 10 hour days…and I thought, jesus how will I ever do this with a kid?
Ugly faced ugly haired moron needs to STFU. Nothing worse than an entitled asshole, NOTHING.
I let my staff work from home when they have kid issues. Seems to work out pretty well. I remember having to deal with issues like day care and sick kids.
Hope you let the childless employees take time when they need to attend to their lives, too. No one asked anyone to have a child, and our lives are important to us even if we’re not parents. It sucks to have the breeders peace out when it suits.
SO MUCH THIS. Why is it ok for people to leave at 3pm to pick up little Kayden and Kelseaigh but we can’t leave to pick up our dog from the vet? Continually pisses me off. Just because I haven’t shat out some crotch fruit doesn’t mean I don’t have shit to do as well.
Of course I do.
OMG SING IT PP. I support maternity leave, part time partnership tracks for women with kids etc (or men who are primary caretakers). But it’s sorta hard when the childless folk don’t get the same breaks. I have important shit to attend to as well.
Lies. None of the commenters here have families, friends, significant others or lives outside of their basements. When a catperson refers to “important shit,” they really mean “My bodega restocks the Cheetos by 5pm and I have to stock up for the week.”
Sarah Lacy needs a more supportive bra.
It’s probably a nursing bra because she is a MOMMY MOMMMM MOMMM MOMMMyou must be sexist and sad :(
This picture is definitely pre baby. at the time where Sarahcuda singlehandedly saved techies from around the world from near starvation. Except for Brazil. We ALL know how *they* fucked themselves over. Betcha sorry now, Brazil!
This picture is a good 5 years old at least. You know, back when it was a big deal to have breasts and not look like an orc if you were part of the tech world. Which she never was. She just wrote about tech. But because she wore black bras under her tees and latched on to Julia Allison in order to promote herself she got some nice little scene cred that she’s still riding on.
A great role model for young women who want to be in tech – don’t bother actually doing any actual tech jobs when you can just tweet and scenewhore your way into legitimacy and money. Call me when she and Rachel Sklar are inducted into the WITI Hall of Fame so I can really get my ‘fuck this shit’ rage on.
Yeah, I’ll bet every last citizen of Brazil is feeling like a real dumbass now. The country made the biggest mistake in its history by pissing off Sarahcuda.
I mean…good for her, and sexism is bad, but…really?
Good for her that she has done absolutely nothing of import, constantly congratulates herself for such non-accomplishments, and is a self-important hag? I guess.
I guess it’s really a “good for her for having slightly more of a life than TW”.
I really love it when a woman starts a company and thinks she’s the only woman in the world to have done so. Even fucking Mary Rambin has done it.
And as far as industries and companies go, I’d venture to say that a tech company in Silicon Valley is one of the most woman-friendly places to work as opposed to say, a white-shoe law firm in Boston.
But carry on Sarah Lacy. You are definitely now on par with all the serious bizness ladies because you managed to get yourself a small business license to operate your crappy little website. Woot.
Seriously. If she thinks she is anywhere on par with women who become partner in biglaw, any female CEO or even any female higher-up at a Fortune 500 co…any female successful business owner (one that produces something of REAL VALUE). Jesus Christ get over yourself.