Sarah Lacy

But you can't imagine at that moment how much, even when David Z did the $500 million Greylock round, I made a bet with another CEO over a fancy dinner anywhere in the world because he insisted not only, the bet wasn't even will Facebook go public and be worth 500 million, which seemed unbelievable to everyone. The bet was, will they be out of business by this time next year?

But you can't imagine at that moment how much, even when David Z did the $500 million Greylock round, I made a bet with another CEO over a fancy dinner anywhere in the world because he insisted not only, the bet wasn't even will Facebook go public and be worth 500 million, which seemed unbelievable to everyone. The bet was, will they be out of business by this time next year?

Like people were so burned, because this is the other thing we're hardwired for is pattern recognition. And people were so burned from the dot com bubble and they were so burned by things like Friendster. No one believed in this company. And so I started, you know, building a relationship with Mark and like covering him as a journalist and getting interested when he was 19.

Like people were so burned, because this is the other thing we're hardwired for is pattern recognition. And people were so burned from the dot com bubble and they were so burned by things like Friendster. No one believed in this company. And so I started, you know, building a relationship with Mark and like covering him as a journalist and getting interested when he was 19.

Like people were so burned, because this is the other thing we're hardwired for is pattern recognition. And people were so burned from the dot com bubble and they were so burned by things like Friendster. No one believed in this company. And so I started, you know, building a relationship with Mark and like covering him as a journalist and getting interested when he was 19.

And then, you know, within a couple of years, I was one of the only two journalists in the world who had access to him.

And then, you know, within a couple of years, I was one of the only two journalists in the world who had access to him.

And then, you know, within a couple of years, I was one of the only two journalists in the world who had access to him.

Yeah, and he also knew it's like, I thought there was something interesting about him when no one else did. I thought he was a remarkable person when no one else did. And again, it's like network, it's all relationships. I was just finishing, Indra Nooyi, the former CEO of Pepsi, was just finishing her autobiography or her memoir this morning.

Yeah, and he also knew it's like, I thought there was something interesting about him when no one else did. I thought he was a remarkable person when no one else did. And again, it's like network, it's all relationships. I was just finishing, Indra Nooyi, the former CEO of Pepsi, was just finishing her autobiography or her memoir this morning.

Yeah, and he also knew it's like, I thought there was something interesting about him when no one else did. I thought he was a remarkable person when no one else did. And again, it's like network, it's all relationships. I was just finishing, Indra Nooyi, the former CEO of Pepsi, was just finishing her autobiography or her memoir this morning.

And she says at the end, like so many amazing things happen when you are the CEO of a multibillion dollar company. And I knew when I left, when I left, my friendship circle was going to shrink because those people, as nice as they were, weren't interested in me. They were interested in what I could do for them.

And she says at the end, like so many amazing things happen when you are the CEO of a multibillion dollar company. And I knew when I left, when I left, my friendship circle was going to shrink because those people, as nice as they were, weren't interested in me. They were interested in what I could do for them.

And she says at the end, like so many amazing things happen when you are the CEO of a multibillion dollar company. And I knew when I left, when I left, my friendship circle was going to shrink because those people, as nice as they were, weren't interested in me. They were interested in what I could do for them.

And so people never underestimate when you're someone who believed in them before the entire world wanted a piece of them. So, I mean, that's an obvious one in my first book, which Mark was, which was about the rise of web 2.0. And Mark was one of a handful of people that I spent hundreds of hours shadowing.

And so people never underestimate when you're someone who believed in them before the entire world wanted a piece of them. So, I mean, that's an obvious one in my first book, which Mark was, which was about the rise of web 2.0. And Mark was one of a handful of people that I spent hundreds of hours shadowing.

And so people never underestimate when you're someone who believed in them before the entire world wanted a piece of them. So, I mean, that's an obvious one in my first book, which Mark was, which was about the rise of web 2.0. And Mark was one of a handful of people that I spent hundreds of hours shadowing.

You know, I mean, I, that was my advance in that book was one of the, it was like the second biggest advance in business week history at that point and allowed me to buy a house in San Francisco that I still have to this day. So that one phone call paid a lot of dividends.

You know, I mean, I, that was my advance in that book was one of the, it was like the second biggest advance in business week history at that point and allowed me to buy a house in San Francisco that I still have to this day. So that one phone call paid a lot of dividends.

You know, I mean, I, that was my advance in that book was one of the, it was like the second biggest advance in business week history at that point and allowed me to buy a house in San Francisco that I still have to this day. So that one phone call paid a lot of dividends.