Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble - Dan Lyons
Category: Autobiography & Biographies
Narrator: Dan Lyons
Tags: Autobiography & Biographies, Documentary, Misc. Non-fiction, Adults
For 25 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 placeby selling email spam. The office vibe was frat house meets cult compound: The party began at 4:30 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 Dans absent
