Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-up Bubble by Dan Lyons
Veteran journalist takes a job in GenY-oriented high tech
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-up Bubble by Dan Lyons launched on May 21, 2016 with 20 votes, #1,585 of 3,824 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
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For 25 years Dan Lyons was a leading tech journalist. But all that ended one Friday morning when his Newsweek boss called and told him that his job no longer existed. Fifty years old with two young kids, Lyons found himself in a tough spot. Then an idea hit. For years he’d seen people strike gold by working for tech startups. Now it could be his turn to cash in. HubSpot, a software developer in Cambridge, Mass., flush with $100 million in venture funding, offered him a nice salary and a pile of stock options to work in its marketing department. What could possibly go wrong? Pretty much everything, as it turned out. His new employer made the world a better place … by selling software…from realdanlyons.com
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