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Chris Sacca Biography
Chris Sacca is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on May 12, 1975 in Lockport, New York State, United States. Established Lowercase Capital, a Venture Capital company that has invested in many technological companies, such as Uber, Instagram, and Twitter. In 2015, it was announced that the company would have him as the guest shark on ABC’s Shark Tank.
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Christopher Sacca (born May 12, 1975) is an American venture investor, company advisor, entrepreneur, and lawyer. He 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. Prior to founding Lowercase Capital in 2010, Sacca held several positions at Google Inc., where he led the alternative access and wireless divisions and worked on mergers and acquisitions. Between 2015 and 2017, he appeared as a “Guest Shark” on ABC’s Shark Tank. In early 2017, Sacca announced that he was retiring from venture investing.
Sacca attended The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He spent semesters abroad at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in Quito, Ecuador, University College Cork, in Cork, Ireland, and the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain. He graduated in 1997 cum laude with a B.S. in foreign service and was an Edmund Evans Memorial Scholar as well as a Weeks Family Foundation Scholar. He 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. He 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. He graduated from Georgetown University with a Juris Doctor cum laude in law and technology in 2000.
His wife was a mother of three girls. Crystal English. He had three daughters with his wife Crystal English. His younger brother Brian had a role in The Wolf of Wall Street., his twin sister He had three daughters with his wife Crystal English. His younger brother Brian had a role in The Wolf of Wall Street. was a character on The Wolf of Wall Street.
Name | Chris Sacca |
First Name | Chris |
Last Name | Sacca |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Birthday | May 12 |
Birth Year | 1975 |
Place of Birth | Lockport |
Home Town | New York State |
Birth Country | United States |
Birth Sign | Taurus |
Full/Birth Name | |
Father | Not Available |
Mother | Not Available |
Siblings | Not Available |
Spouse | Crystal English Sacca |
Children(s) | Not Available |
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In 2000 Sacca began his career as an associate at Fenwick & West in Silicon Valley where he handled venture capital, mergers, acquisitions, and licensing transactions for technology clients including Macromedia, VeriSign, and Kleiner Perkins. Laid off in September 2001, after approximately 13 months he spent the next few years attending networking events and ‘surviving’ in Silicon Valley by drafting contracts and doing voice over work as a freelancer. Creating the consulting firm The Salinger Group for networking purposes, he eventually landed at Speedera Networks. At Speedera he held a number of executive roles and was responsible for legal and corporate development efforts, helping fend off continual lawsuits from corporate rival Akamai.
Chris Sacca Net Worth
Chris Sacca is one of the richest Entrepreneur from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chris Sacca's net worth $1 Billion. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He earned an law degree at Georgetown University, and later was a prominent employee at Google.
In 2015, Forbes magazine declared him to be a billionaire. He has more than 1.5 million users on Twitter.
Chris Sacca was born on May 12, 1975 and raised in a suburb of Buffalo. His father was an attorney, while his mother was a professor at SUNY Buffalo State. Sacca is of Irish and Italian descent, with family originating from Calabria, Italy. 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.
Net Worth | $1 Billion |
Salary | Under Review |
Source of Income | Entrepreneur |
Cars | Not Available |
House | Living in own house. |
In November 2003 Sacca was hired at Google as Corporate Counsel, where he reported to General Counsel David Drummond. As part of the legal and business development team, his first mandate was to find large amounts of data space, by negotiating and signing agreements around the world. Sacca served as Head of Special Initiatives at Google Inc. leading the alternative access and wireless divisions. Among his projects were the 700 MHz and TV white spaces spectrum initiatives, Google’s data center in Oregon, and the free citywide WiFi network in Mountain View, California. Sacca also 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. He was among the first Google employees given the Founders’ Award, the company’s highest honor.
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. Entrepreneurs including Travis Kalanick and Sacca would spend hours discussing ideas at the residence, and Sacca eventually bought the house next door to host various visiting entrepreneurs. When money began to run low Sacca raised a new fund with investors such as Brad Feld, Marissa Mayer, Eric Schmidt, and JPMorgan Chase’s Digital Growth Fund.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
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Height | 6 ft 0 in |
Weight | Not Known |
Body Measurements | Under Review |
Eye Color | Not Available |
Hair Color | Not Available |
Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
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. By leveraging trades for significant amounts (discovering a flaw in the software of online trading brokers in 1998) he managed to turn $10–20 thousand dollars into $12 million by 2000. Eventually, when the market crashed, Sacca found himself in debt with a four million dollar negative balance. He negotiated to have it reduced to $2.125 million and had repaid it by February 2005.
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. Following Obama’s victory, Sacca served as co-chair of finance for the Presidential Inaugural Committee. During Obama’s successful 2012 reelection campaign, Sacca served as a member of the campaign’s National Finance Committee member and as co-chair of the “Tech for Obama” group. During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Sacca was a vocal supporter of Democratic Nominee Hillary Clinton, appearing in various fundraisers around the country. He 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.
Who is Chris Sacca Dating?
According to our records, Chris Sacca married to Crystal English Sacca. As of December 1, 2023, Chris Sacca’s is not dating anyone.
Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Chris Sacca. You may help us to build the dating records for Chris Sacca!While at Google, Sacca began investing in companies as an angel investor, investing his own money in startup companies or receiving equity in exchange for advising. He served as a professional advisor to companies for a variety of matters, including strategy, optimizing user experience, raising money, and selling a company. This included Auctomatic (sold to Live Current Media) and Omnisio (sold to Google/YouTube). His first angel investment was in Photobucket, which was then sold to News Corp in 2007. His second investment was in Twitter. Entrepreneur Evan Williams had started a microblogging service called Twttr in 2006, and asked Sacca if he wanted to invest. Sacca invested $25,000 and began using the service, registering in July 2006 as the 102nd user on the site. He related to Forbes that “I wasted months trying to get others to believe it could be a real business, not just a toy,” before deciding to “to just buy it all myself.” Sacca took part in a $5 million financing round for Twitter in late 2007 and ultimately created four separate funds to surreptitiously buy as many Twitter shares as possible. 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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Through 2009 he invested in companies such as Kickstarter, Twilio and Lookout. 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 Sacca’s position in the company. By February 2011 Sacca’s funds had purchased about $400 million worth of Twitter shares, giving it “a stake of roughly 9 percent.” When Twitter went public in late 2013, Sacca’s affiliated funds owned almost 18% of the company, raising the value of Sacca’s investment in the company to around $1 billion.
How did Chris Sacca get rich?
2021 Billionaires Net Worth Chris Sacca made early bets investing in Twitter and Uber through his venture capital firm Lowercase Capital. Sacca also invested in Twilio, a cloud software company, which went public in 2016.
How much is Chris Sacca worth?
Forbes estimated that Sacca was personally worth $1.2 billion.
Are Mark Cuban and Chris Sacca friends?
While viewers often saw some competitive repartee between Sacca and Cuban, the bickering billionaires are friends in real life. “I see my role on the show as keeping Mark honest,” Sacca joked. “I’ve known him for years. The nature of our friendship is ball-busting.
Why did Chris Sacca retire?
With the benefit of hindsight, what was the biggest reason for your retiring from startup investing? Chris Sacca: I just wasn’t feeling it anymore.
Why did Chris leave Shark Tank?
An exit from ‘Shark Tank’ was inevitable Though Sacca thoroughly enjoyed being a part of the Shark Tank panel, his retirement from startup investing required him to give up his chair from the ABC show. “The love I got from you guys during my seasons on the show was incredible,” he expressed. “It choked me up at times.
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