Crystal English Sacca Biography
Crystal English Sacca is a venture investor and author from the United States. She is well-known for her advertising work, her New York Times bestselling book, her role as an early investor in Uber and Blue Bottle Coffee through Lowercase Capital, and her philanthropy.
How old is Crystal English Sacca? – Age
She is 47 years old as of February 22, 2022. She was born in 1975 in the United States. As a child, she lived in several countries, including Mauritania, the Gambia, Swaziland, Japan, and India.
Crystal English Sacca Parents – Education
Her parents, including her father, Burt English, immigrated to the United States. Sacca studied at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She earned a B.S. in Foreign Service.
Crystal English Sacca Husband
Chris Sacca, a former venture investor and the founder of Lowercase Capital, is Sacca’s wife. They are the parents of three daughters. Sacca and Crystal met during the entrepreneur’s freshman year at university. Sacca asked her out right away, but he was friend-zoned for the next 14 years. According to Crystal’s Instagram post from June 12, 2011, the couple married in 2011. The post included a congratulatory note from her girlfriends for her special day.
CC Eleven, the couple’s eldest daughter, was born in November 2011. Circa Luna, their second daughter, was born in August 2013. Center Sky, their youngest daughter, was born in September 2015.
How much is Chris Sacca worth? – Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1.5 Billion.
Crystal English Sacca Books
Sacca has co-authored and designed wine and whiskey books. Her wine book The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert, published in 2013, was a New York Times Best Seller. The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Becoming a Whiskey Know-It-All, the follow-up book, was released in 2015.
Crystal English Sacca Foundation
She and her husband, Chris Sacca, have signed the Giving Pledge, pledging to donate the majority of their wealth to charity.
Crystal English Sacca Career
Sacca worked in advertising in the early 2000s, serving as art director for clients such as Audi, Intel, Barclays, HBO, Sprint, and Napster. She won a Cannes Lion, two Gold Cannes Cyberlions, and several other honors. She was named an AdWeek “Best Creatives You Don’t Know” and an ADC Young Gun.
She most recently served as producer of Mike Birbiglia’s The New One stage production in 2018. Sacca is a partner at the angel investment firm Lowercase Capital and the co-founder of Lowercarbon Capital, an environmental investment fund. She was a co-founder of companies such as Uber and Blue Bottle. Linear Labs, a manufacturer of next-generation electric motors, is a more recent investment.
Sacca was appointed to the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s Board of Trustees in 2019. She is a co-founder of The Design Vanguard. The organization describes itself as working to make the world a “more just and beautiful place” through the efforts of innovative leaders. In response to Trump’s travel ban (also known as the “Muslim ban”) in 2017, she created her well-known “Everyone Welcome” painting.