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.
"Disrupted by Dan Lyons is the best book about Silicon Valley
today.... Simultaneously hilarious and terrifying, Disrupted is an
insider's look at a technology start-up from an outsider's
perspective. Yet it's more than a chronicle of Lyons' tenure at one
company, but a broader commentary on a business culture that often
appears to be built on financial quicksand."--Los Angeles Times
"Disrupted provides an eye-opening and gut-busting account of the
maddening world of startup excess, hubris and groupthink from the
unique perspective of a prominent technology reporter and satirist
who was inexplicably hired and given a front row seat to the
lunacy."--Mashable
"Disrupted...offers an unvarnished insider's view of a tech
startup.... That makes the book a must-read for anyone who works at
a tech startup or wants to create one, in the same vein that books
like One L became mandatory reading for soon-to-be law students....
A delightful portal into the world of a tech startup."--Lilly
Rockwell, Austin American-Statesman
"[Lyons's] artful reporting from the inside makes for a funny and
thoughtful account of the current culture surrounding technology
startups. But in addition to entertainment, Lyons's book is also
flush with analysis of those the entrepreneurs that founded these
companies and the myriad firms that fund them."--The Atlantic
"A juicy read.... Disrupted is worth a read for its exploration of
startup culture and its effect on labor....The book made me fearful
of the fact that startup culture--from Google-style perks and zero
work-life balance to corporate cheerleading and a cult-like
devotion to the 'mission'--has become aspirational to many
corporations. The ways in which the worst parts of startup culture
benefit managers and investors while making workers disposable are
particularly scary, and Lyons attacks that issue in a compelling
way.... Disrupted is a foil to all those awful books that make
sweeping generalizations about how to work with millennials."--Erin
Griffith, Fortune.com
"An often-delightful tour through startup culture... But there are
parts of his book that should send shivers down the spine of anyone
who uses the Internet."--Harvard Business Review
"As the writer behind the satirical blog Fake Steve Jobs, [Lyons]
could not have imagined a place so ripe for parody as HubSpot.
Every detail of the hip office space, incompetent management, and
delusional workforce described by Lyons in his hilarious and
unsettling expos� is like something out of a scripted comedy (the
author writes for HBO's Silicon Valley) ... An exacting,
excoriating takedown of the current startup 'bubble' and the
juvenile corporate culture it engenders."--Kirkus Reviews
"Dan 'Fake Steve' Lyons runs such a savage burn on his ex-employer,
HubSpot, that the smoke can be seen clear across the country in
Silicon Valley. Disrupted is fun, compulsively readable and just
might tell us something important about the hypocrisy and cult-like
fervor inside today's technology giants."--Brad Stone, New York
Times-bestselling author of The Everything Store
"Dan Lyons goes deep inside a company that uses terms like 'world
class marketing thought leaders' to show us how ridiculous,
wasteful, and infantile tech start-ups like this can be. And best
of all, Lyons does this with his trademark pejorative and hilarious
tone."--Nick Bilton, New York Times technology columnist
"Hilarious and eye-opening."--Business Insider
"Hilarious... A must-read, not just in the real Silicon Valley but
also on Wall Street... A highly entertaining, highly troubling tale
of greed, graft, possible extortion, marketing nonsense, #content,
incompetent bozos, investor hype, the impossibly wealthy and a man
just looking to make his cut. That, folks, isn't just the Silicon
Valley dream. It's the American dream."--Chris Taylor, Mashable
("Geek Book of the Week")
"It would be incomplete to classify Disrupted as merely an Office
Space-esque critique of Corporate America. It also serves as social
commentary about the way that more senior employees are viewed and
valued in a hyper-aggressive startup culture hell bent on an IPO.
In other words, you will both laugh and think. I consumed the book
in less than a day and highly recommend it to people curious about
what could very well happen to them."--Phil Simon, The Huffington
Post
"Laugh-out-loud funny."--Newsweek
"Lyons finds the right company, if only for the raw material that
he, a seasoned satirist, spins into gold.... But the book is not
just a chronicle of the tech bubble's silly quirks.... Lyons uses
the lens of his growing disillusionment to focus a broader critique
of Silicon Valley."--Financial Times
"Read this book if you work or invest in tech and, in particular,
tech startups. And not just for the tales of corporate intrigue,
hypocrisy, and ridiculousness that have caused HubSpot and its
allies to get so hot under their collective collar.... [Lyons]
makes a strong case for how all of that young labor, when
increasingly wrapped up into an over-arching 'corporate culture, '
creates subtle age discrimination that these employees won't
recognize for years to come. This not only is a real (albeit
virtually ignored) issue at tech companies today, but is going to
become a much larger one as digital natives continue to age."--Dan
Primack, Fortune.com
"Scathingly funny .... Like the show 'Silicon Valley, ' Disrupted
nails the workings of spastic, hypocritical, delusional tech
culture."--New York Post
"The tech industry needs more writers like Lyons who are willing to
probe its hyperbole, the ridiculous valuations, injustices and
inconsistencies."--MarketWatch
"This humorous and well-crafted memoir is part of a proud literary
tradition: the disgruntled ex-employee tell-all. It's a genre that
includes classic nonfiction accounts such as John DeLorean's On a
Clear Day You Can See General Motors (detailing the carmaker's
decline in the 1970s) and Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker (describing
life at Salomon Brothers during the 1980s boom)."--Harvard Business
Review
"Troubling but funny ... [a] coolly observant book ... [with] a
splendidly weird coda ... You couldn't have written a tastier
ending, even for HBO."--Dwight Garner, New York Times
"Using his trademark wit and clear-eyed analysis, Dan Lyons has
delivered a much-needed referendum on the current state of Silicon
Valley. In wildly entertaining fashion, Disrupted explores the ways
in which many technology companies have come to fool the public and
themselves. Lyons has injected a dose of sanity into a world gone
mad."--Ashlee Vance, New York Times-bestselling author of Elon
Musk
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San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
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