teamsiems » Sarah Lacy http://teamsiems.com A team of Siems making observations Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:59:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Twitter Backchannel, Sarah Lacy, Tony Hsieh http://teamsiems.com/2009/10/zappos-tony-hsieh-keynote-visual-thought/ http://teamsiems.com/2009/10/zappos-tony-hsieh-keynote-visual-thought/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:12:58 +0000 Chris http://teamsiems.com/2009/10/zappos-tony-hsieh-keynote-visual-thought/ Continue reading →]]> Sarah Lacy blows-up at SXSW 2008 I couldn’t resist posting this little piece of twitter meltdown irony. At SXSW 2008, Sarah Lacy, interviewed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a keynote speaker. The interview went so badly that the twitter backchannel took over the show and those in attendance were making scathing comments. Eventually, Sarah lost control of the interview and was relegated to moderator of questions from the crowd. When it was all over, Sarah had a tweet of her own.

Visual Thinking SXSW 2009 Fast forward one year, during SXSW 2009, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh gave a keynote (by himself) with this visual thinking aid. Four months later, July 2009, he sold Zappos for $850 Million. Guess who reported the sale on techcrunch.com? That’s right, Sarah Lacy. Her headline was “Amazon Buys Zappos; The Price is $928m., not $847m.” Now that’s ironic.

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