Dan Lyons is a novelist, journalist, and screenwriter. He is currently a co-producer and -writer for the HBO series Silicon Valley. Previously, Lyons was technology editor at Newsweek and the creator of the groundbreaking viral blog "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs" (AKA "Fake Steve Jobs"). Lyons has written for the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Wired. He lives in Winchester, MA.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Disrupted by Dan Lyons is the best book about Silicon Valley today."---Los Angeles Times
"Hysterical."---Kara Swisher, Recode
"Wildly entertaining."---Ashlee Vance, New York Times-bestselling author of Elon Musk
For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession--until one Friday morning when he received a phone call: Poof. His job no longer existed. "I think they just want to hire younger people," his boss at Newsweek told him. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was, in a word, screwed. Then an idea hit. Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, was flush with $100 million in venture capital. They 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: The party began at four thirty on Friday and lasted well into the night; "shower pods" became hook-up dens; a push-up club met at noon in the lobby, while nearby, 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, and literally old enough to be the father of most of his co-workers, sitting at his desk on his bouncy-ball "chair."
Mixed in with Lyons's uproarious tale of his rise and fall at Hubspot is a trenchant analysis of the start-up world, a de facto 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 post-collegiate 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 a gripping and definitive account of life in the (second) tech bubble.
##受害者自述。其中的一些遭遇,比如遭到上司排擠,因為社交媒體說錯話惹麻煩,在其他公司也可能發生,不能全賴到創業公司頭上。Dan看不慣的地方,一部分確實是創業公司獨有的,一部分是因為Marketing就是這麼一個領域。做記者做長瞭,就容易變得Cynical,所以很多做媒體的乾脆最後就失業瞭。
評分讀後非常震撼。一開始以為是小說,越看越像真事,還說是作者寫的好,寫得像真事。看完後查瞭一下,就是美國上市公司Hubspot的真事。 作者52歲的時候以商業媒體記者的身份加入HubSpot,兩年後2014年年底HubSpot上市,之後作者很快退齣。本書是作者在此期間感受到的公司各種奇葩...
評分 評分 評分 評分 評分##這本書個人評價7分。書中講述的是五到十年前美國矽榖創業公司的“虛僞和瘋狂”,由於持續的通貨膨脹,市場上熱錢很多,資本都趕著給這些創業公司投資。拿到融資的公司創始人們,難免沾沾自喜,各種奢侈消費揮霍無度,同時一方麵到處演講炫耀自己的不凡,另一方麵也通過使用下作...
評分 評分##“In the world I come from …. ”. “ The women on the blog team … “. Seriously? A few lessons to be learned from Lyons’ misadventure.
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