DisruptedDisrupted
My Misadventure in the Start-up Bubble
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Book, 2016
Current format, Book, 2016, First edition, Available .Book, 2016
Current format, Book, 2016, First edition, Available . Offered in 0 more formats"Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, when magazine writer Dan Lyons was laid off, he was, in a word, screwed. Then an idea hit. He had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, flush with venture capital, offered Dan a pile of stock options for the vague role of "marketing fellow." What could go wrong? HubSpotters were true believers: They were making the world a better place -- by selling email spam. The office vibe was frat house meets cult compound: "shower pods" became hook-up dens; in the "content factory," Nerf gun fights raged. Groups went on "walking meetings," and Dan's absentee boss sent cryptic emails about employees who had "graduated" (read: been fired). In the middle of all this was Dan, exactly twice the age of the average HubSpot employee, sitting at his desk on his bouncy-ball chair. Mixed in with the tale of his rise and fall at Hubspot is a trenchant analysis of the start-up world, a conspiracy between those who start companies and those who fund them, a world where bad ideas are rewarded with hefty investments, where companies blow money lavishing perks on their workforces, and where everybody is trying to hang on just long enough to reach an IPO and cash out. With a cast of characters that includes devilish angel investors, fad-chasing venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and "wantrapreneurs," bloggers and brogrammers, social climbers and sociopaths, Disrupted is an account of life in the (second) tech bubble. Dan Lyons is currently a co-producer and writer for the HBO series Silicon Valley"--Provided by publisher.
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