Gina Alatorre is the CEO and co-founder of Hacker Lab .
Hacker Lab Cuts New Path
Leader of Sacramento maker space details demise and path ahead
INTERVIEW BY Ed Fletcher PHOTOS BY Joan Cusick
Over its 10-year existence , Hacker Lab taught Sacramento the term “ maker space .” In the process , it ’ s helped thousands of people learn to build , make , cut and code . Hundreds of entrepreneurs started turning their dreams into reality at one of its once three locations . But when the pandemic hit , the struggles began . Earlier this month , Hacker Lab announced on Facebook that the “ organization was unsustainable in its current form ” and intended to begin liquidating much of the equipment and shutting down operations by mid-August . Longtime Sacramento reporter Ed Fletcher spoke with its CEO Gina Alatorre about trying to save the enterprise from debt , the next pivot and her hard-learned lessons .
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