Sarah Lacy discusses why young girls need sales and entrepreneurship education.
Opinion
Lacy: Chairman Me failed due to women's internalized misogyny
“Do you know why that company failed? Because every day I had to do battle with women's internalized misogyny. And it was like, I was falling into a pit wrestling with Gandalf. Like it was, I couldn't do it. And that was ultimately why the company failed becaus…”
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Lacy: Zuckerberg's unique differentiator is extreme humility and zero ego when learning
“I think the piece that Mark does that other people Don't always see from the outside is this extreme humility and amazing self-awareness. So he knows when he doesn't know something and he doesn't just go in to learn it. He gives himself, or he used to, and I d…”
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Lacy: Working in venture capital requires backing sociopaths
“I also don't want to become a VC because I'm too opinionated and too controversial, and I couldn't back someone who was a sociopath, which is kind of required in that, that field.”
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Lacy: School entrepreneurship for tweens will transform female leadership in 30 years
“But if you had that in schools before they hit the confidence rock bottom I think in a generation it would transform female leadership, and I think it's one of those things that I guarantee you in 20 or 30 years whenever people would be like, Interviewing, you…”
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Lacy: Most women raising large VC rounds come from media backgrounds
“I think it's the reason that most women who raise large amounts of venture capital do not come from a math background, but come from a media background because it is like the great leveler.”
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Lacy: Chairman Me's negotiation course delivered 30% average salary bumps
“So like, we had this negotiate, this course on negotiation, taught by this coach who used the scientifically proven way to negotiate without a gender backlash, And on average got people, 30% increases in salaries.”