If you know Sarah Lacy you either love her or hate her. She is not someone who inspires “meh.”

As a journalist, she has written for BusinessWeek, Fortune, hosted TechTicker on Yahoo Finance, helped build TechCrunch, and co-founded Pando.com. She has written three books about entrepreneurship and Silicon Valley. She is known for her interviews of major technology founders, CEOs, and investors, which collectively have millions of views. She’s been written about in San Francisco Magazine, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post— to name a few— and featured on Bloomberg, the Today Show, and CBS This Morning among many others.

In 2018, she also cofounded ChairmanMe, which started life as ChairmanMom and helped tends of thousands of working women achieve economic parity in the workplace.

These days, she splits her time between San Francisco, where she does collaborative writing and story consulting for many of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, and Palm Springs, where she co-owns the Best Bookstore in Palm Springs.

She lives with her partner in life and work, Paul Bradley Carr, her two ferocious daughters, three opinionated cats, and a-way-too-clingy poodle.

Despite no longer being a journalist, she still manages to piss someone off every day.