Christopher Sacca was born on May 12,1975 and is an American venture investor, company advisor, entrepreneur, and lawyer.
43 Facts About Chris Sacca
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Chris Sacca is the proprietor of Lowercase Capital, a venture capital fund in the United States that has invested in seed and early-stage technology companies such as Twitter, Uber, Instagram, Twilio, and Kickstarter, investments that resulted in his placement as No 2 on Forbes' Midas List: Top Tech Investors for 2017.
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In early 2017, Sacca announced that he was retiring from venture investing.
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In 2021, Chris Sacca announced that he was back into venture investing with a focus on Climate issues.
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Chris Sacca was born on May 12,1975, and raised in Lockport, a suburb of Buffalo.
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Chris Sacca's father was an attorney, while his mother was a professor at SUNY Buffalo State.
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Chris Sacca is of Irish and Italian descent, with family originating from Calabria, Italy.
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Chris Sacca's parents exposed him to a variety of interests, and he recalls being pulled out of school to attend science museums and book-readings.
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Chris Sacca was a member of The Tax Lawyer law review and was honored as the school's Philip A Ryan and Ralph J Gilbert Memorial Scholar.
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Chris Sacca recalls that he managed to graduate without attending class, obtaining class notes by throwing an annual keg party where entry required classmates to dump their notes in a bin.
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Chris Sacca used his student loans to start a company during law school, and when the venture proved unsuccessful he used the remaining funds to start trading on the stock market.
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Chris Sacca negotiated to have it reduced to $2.125 million and had repaid it by February 2005.
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In November 2003 Chris Sacca was hired at Google as Corporate Counsel, where he reported to General Counsel David Drummond.
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Chris Sacca served as Head of Special Initiatives at Google Inc leading the alternative access and wireless divisions.
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Chris Sacca led many of Google's business development and mergers and acquisitions transactions and was on the founding team of the company's New Business Development organization.
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Chris Sacca was among the first Google employees given the Founders' Award, the company's highest honor.
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Chris Sacca served as a professional advisor to companies for a variety of matters, including strategy, optimizing user experience, raising money, and selling a company.
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Chris Sacca invested $25,000 and began using the service, registering in July 2006 as the 102nd user on the site.
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Chris Sacca left Google in December 2007 after he had fully vested and sought additional opportunities to work with early-stage companies.
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Chris Sacca has stated that a turning point in his angel investing was in 2007, when he moved to the town of Truckee in the mountains close to Lake Tahoe.
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Entrepreneurs including Travis Kalanick and Chris Sacca would spend hours discussing ideas at the residence, and Chris Sacca eventually bought the house next door to host various visiting entrepreneurs.
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Chris Sacca founded Lowercase Capital LLC in Truckee California, in 2010 when he closed his Lowercase Ventures Fund I, an $8.4 million seed fund, in 2010, with investments in Uber, Docker, Optimizely, StyleSeat, Instagram, and Twitter.
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Chris Sacca attended meetings at Twitter and Uber, and he negotiated the rights for Uber.
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Chris Sacca opened a new $1 billion investment fund in the summer of 2010, and later that year the fund began to buy large blocks of shares from Twitter stockholders, deepening Chris Sacca's position in the company.
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Chris Sacca brought in Matt Mazzeo to Lowercase Capital as a partner in 2013, with Mazzeo heading a new early-stage fund, Lowercase Stampede, out of Los Angeles.
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Chris Sacca said his firm would continue to support its portfolio companies, but would not take on any new investments or raise more money from investors.
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Chris Sacca launched a climate change-related fund in 2020 called Lowercarbon Capital which was initially funded by Chris Sacca and his wife.
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Chris Sacca regularly speaks about venture capital and investing in media.
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Chris Sacca has been characterized as an expert by Business Week, Fortune magazine, CNBC, the BBC, CNN, Fox and NPR.
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Chris Sacca played himself in the "Overton Window" episode of Billions.
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Subsequently, appearing in three other season 7 episodes, Chris Sacca invested in HatchBaby, Bee Free Honee, Rent Like a Champion, and Brightwheel.
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Chris Sacca has appeared as a guest shark in five episodes of season 8.
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In 2015, Chris Sacca was featured on the cover of Forbes magazine listed as No 3 on the Midas list.
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Chris Sacca has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.
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Chris Sacca's wife Crystal English Chris Sacca is a partner at Lowercase.
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In 2017 the New York Times reported that a woman had accused Chris Sacca of touching her face at a Las Vegas gathering in 2009 without consent, making her uncomfortable.
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Chris Sacca denied the allegation, but did apologize for contributing to a business atmosphere that was "inhospitable" for women in technology and venture capital.
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Chris Sacca is involved with charity: water, a nonprofit seeking to bring clean drinking water to every person on the planet.
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Chris Sacca has served as an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School at Oxford University and as an MIT Enterprise Forum Global Trustee.
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Chris Sacca is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.
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Chris Sacca worked for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign as a Telecommunications, Media, and Technology advisor and campaign surrogate, as well as a field office volunteer.
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Chris Sacca spoke against Trump, and in response to President Donald Trump's 2017 executive order banning travel from seven predominantly Muslim nations, Sacca donated $150,000 in matching donations to ACLU.
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Chris Sacca donated to the Lincoln Project, a Republican-led super PAC opposing the re-election of Donald Trump and Republican Senators who supported him.