Tech Crush Thursday: Chris Sacca
When you’re dubbed as “possibly the most influential businessman in America” by the Wall Street Journal, there is no questioning that you’re going to get our attention. Chris Sacca is the brilliant mind behind Lowercase Capital, one of the largest venture funds in America with currently more than fifty consumer web, wireless, and mobile tech start-ups under its belt.
Chris began his career in venture funding in not-so-ordinary circumstances as he graduated cum laude from Georgetown University. He quickly began carving out his space in law and business when he became an attorney in Silicon Valley’s Fenwick & West law firm, and later a Telecommunications, Media and Technology advisor to the 2008 presidential campaign to elect now incumbent, Barack Obama. After that he was a legal and corporate development executive at Speedera Networks, one of the world’s largest streaming and digital media distribution companies, as well as Head of Special Initiatives at Google Inc. where he founded and oversaw their alternative and wireless divisions.
When he’s not skiing or giving his time to charity, you can find Chris in the pages of Fast Company and Business Week as well as on networks like CNBC, CNN, NPR, and BBC as an expert in venture capital/capitalism, innovative entrepreneurialism, and value network development (a.k.a disruptive technology.)
