• If Sarah Lacy's New Book Hits #1, We're Throwing A Party

    Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

    J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

    Last night I reviewed TechCrunch Editor Sarah Lacy’s new book Brilliant Crazy, Cocky: How The Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit From Global Chaos.

    It shot up from #23 on the list of top entrepreneurship books to #2 overnight. And that’s just for the Kindle. The hardcopy is also for sale on Amazon but hasn’t hit physical bookstores yet.

    Here’s the thing. We don’t like being #2. We like being #1. And we’re almost there. So if you people just buy a few more copies of the book, and you sure won’t be disappointed, it’ll be at the top of the list.

    And then we’ll be throwing a party. We’re thinking March 9 in San Francisco. With an open bar.

    So get to it people. We need to put this whole Paul Carr thing behind us, and celebrate the good things in life.

    Update: It hit the top spot! And is currently at no. 5 on the top business books.

    Sarah Lacy writes for PandoDaily, a news site which she founded. She is also an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0” (Gotham Books, May 2008) and “Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos (Wiley, February 2011). Lacy has been a reporter in Silicon Valley for nearly fifteen years, covering everything from the tiniest...

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