PandoDaily
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
PandoDaily (later Pando) was a technology news site founded in 2012 by former TechCrunch editor Sarah Lacy, aiming to be the 'site-of-record for that startup root-system'. It combined a daily tech blog with a monthly event series, PandoMonthly, and later merged with Paul Carr's NSFW magazine to double down on investigative reporting. It raised about $2.5 million from investors including Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Tony Hsieh, David Sze, Jim Breyer, Reid Hoffman, Chris Dixon and Josh Kopelman.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Sarah Lacy founded PandoDaily in 2012 with about $2.5 million in funding from prominent individual investors.
- Merger with NSFW
PandoDaily merged with NSFW magazine to expand investigative reporting, rebranding as Pando.
- Sold to BuySellAds
On October 23, 2019 Lacy announced she had sold Pando to ad company BuySellAds and was retiring from journalism, citing years of harassment, threats and betrayals covering Silicon Valley.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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