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Disrupted

By Dan Lyons

My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble. Hachette, 2016.

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Disrupted

A brief summary of Disrupted

A witty, humorous description of one fifty-something journalist’s attempt to start a new career and maybe strike it rich working at the chaotic, unregulated, cultish start-up company HubSpot.

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Who should read Disrupted

Journalists • anti-Silicon Valley types • generation X-ers • anyone thinking of starting afresh • technology enthusiasts • investors

About the author of Disrupted

Dan Lyons is a writer who worked as the technology editor at Newsweek, a senior editor at Forbes, and gained notoriety for publishing a satirical blog and book as “Fake Steve Jobs.” Lyons wrote for the HBO series Silicon Valley for two seasons and has published three fiction novels as well as the non-fiction investigative work Lab Rats.

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