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Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
Disrupted My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble Author:Dan Lyons INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — "The best book about Silicon Valley today."--Los Angeles Times — "Hysterical."--Kara Swisher, Recode — Now in paperback, Dan Lyons' "hilarious and eye-opening" (Business Insider) bestseller about trying -- and failing -- to reinvent himself at age 50 at a software start-up populated by millennial co-workers and i... more »nept bosses.
For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer--until one Friday morning when he received a phone call: Poof. His job no longer existed. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was, in a word, screwed. Then an idea hit. He had long reported on the tech bonanza. Why not join it? HubSpot, flush with $100 million in venture capital, offered Dan a pile of stock options. What could go wrong?
With a cast of characters that includes fad-chasing venture capitalists, "content farm" bloggers and sales bros, social climbers and sociopaths, Disrupted is "an eye-opening and gut-busting account of the maddening world of startup excess, hubris and groupthink" (Mashable) and "you couldn't have written a tastier ending, even for HBO" (Dwight Garner, New York Times).
Mixed in with Lyons' "hilarious and terrifying" (Los Angeles Times) tale 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 on lavish perks, where workers become disposable widgets, and ageism and other bias runs rampant.« less