Tough Chick - Sarah Lacy

My first exposure to the name Sarah Lacy was during SXSW (and no, of course I wasn’t there - I was sitting at home in Wisconsin being inundated with SXSW tweets and references) when I started seeing pretty scathing tweets come through about an interview she did - fast forward to now when I’m a devoted Sarah Lacy fan and read her new blog and follow her on twitter, both of which lead me to read a lot of her other business pieces - don’t they say all press is good press - SXSW probably HELPED her way more than hurt her!

The point of all this is that she’s now one of my must-reads each day because she’s a strong writer and a strong woman - I haven’t met her (and probably never will) and have had no direct contact with her, but I like her style. Her new book is out today and I’m excited to read it - “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0“.

The teaser for the book on Sarah’s website states:

“Business reporter Sarah Lacy chronicles the lives of several different people trying to get their dreams off the ground. Max Levchin, the savvy founder of PayPal, looks for another hit with a “web widget” company. Kevin Rose tries to grow his “social news” site Digg.com while ! playing the part of Web 2.0 poster boy. Marc Andreesen, the legendary founder of Netscape, comes back to the game seeking to found his third billion-dollar company. Mark Zuckerberg watches Facebook grow from his dorm room at Harvard into one of the most powerful sites on the Web as he tries to avoid the spotlight. While following these entrepreneurs, Lacy brings to light the entire Web 2.0 scene: the wide-eyed but wary founders of startups, the hated venture capitalists, the bloggers fueling the hype, the programmers coding through the night on Red Bull and takeout, the twenty-something millionaires, and the internet “fan boys” eager for all the promises to come true.”

I’ll be sure to post my thoughts on this book as soon as I finish it!

Note: Another book I’m dying to dig into (and waiting for Amazon to deliver) is Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. I found out about this book from Amanda Mooney - shortly after that I saw every PR and social media person on twitter start talking about the Groundswell webinar and all other things Groundswell. Intriguing!

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