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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…”
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…”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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.”
Lacy: Only two journalists had direct access to early Mark Zuckerberg
“Within a couple years, I was one of the only two journalists in the world who had access to him.”
Lacy: Author-trained AI coaching bots expand reach without cannibalizing books
“I think there's an amazing opportunity. For AI here to build coachable AI bots based on authors. And I am so skeptical about AI and so many things, but I think the detail and the rigor and the framework and the word count of a book, I think if they had lecture…”
Lacy: It takes only 10,000 sales to hit NYT Bestseller List
“It only takes 10,000 books to get on the New York Times bestseller list.”
Lacy: Empathy from Reading Fiction Is a Major Career Advantage
“There are so many studies that show that reading fiction, especially for people, anyone building a consumer product, trying to sell to people, trying to understand the empathy that you gain from that is absolutely a career advantage.”
Lacy: Chairman Me courses reached 90% completion rate versus 5% average
“Like, we had 90% completion rates, whereas online courses usually have five percent completion rates, and we taught really tactical things by the best people in the world.”
Lacy: Less than 3% of female-founded businesses reach $1M in revenue
“Only three per, less than three percent of female founded businesses ever do a million dollars in revenue”
Lacy: 30% of Chairman Mom's launch customers were not mothers
“When we started chairman mom from day one, 30% of our customers were not moms.”
Lacy: High advances prevented her from ever earning book royalties
“I don't think I ever earn royalties on any of my books. Cause I am such a good salesperson. I got massive advances, but every one I wrote, I got so many monetary career benefits, whether it was speaking gigs, Whether it was board opportunities, whether it was,…”