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Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
by Dan Lyons
After being laid off, former Newsweek journalist Dan Lyons gets a job at Boston tech company HubSpot, where he is twice the age of his new coworkers. His book Disrupted purports to be an inside look into start-up culture.
I would give it 4 stars for being compulsively readable, but then subtract 3 stars for the author being completely insufferable. As a millennial who works at a start-up, it really just seemed like Lyons was doing his best to insult me at every turn. I constantly wondered, "Why did you even get hired in the first place?"
Lyons offers no revelations about start-ups, he simply comes across as a bitter, resentful person ranting about his job. He is adamant that start-ups are scammers and CEOs of tech companies are all lazy fratboys. Everyone is a bozo, and at one point he calls his coworkers, and I quote, “beer-drinking shitheads.” He wants to be doing “real journalism” and doesn’t understand why it’s wrong to post negative things about his employer on social media. He complains that no one at HubSpot appreciates his sense of humor, and when he is offered a role writing for HBO sitcom Silicon Valley, Lyons gleefully rejoices that he can get paid to make dick jokes.
Lyons says over and over that he only stays at HubSpot for the paycheck. My big takeaway is: Don't hire people, no matter how impressive their resume may seem, who think your whole company, your entire business model, and your freaking industry is a joke.
I would give it 4 stars for being compulsively readable, but then subtract 3 stars for the author being completely insufferable. As a millennial who works at a start-up, it really just seemed like Lyons was doing his best to insult me at every turn. I constantly wondered, "Why did you even get hired in the first place?"
Lyons offers no revelations about start-ups, he simply comes across as a bitter, resentful person ranting about his job. He is adamant that start-ups are scammers and CEOs of tech companies are all lazy fratboys. Everyone is a bozo, and at one point he calls his coworkers, and I quote, “beer-drinking shitheads.” He wants to be doing “real journalism” and doesn’t understand why it’s wrong to post negative things about his employer on social media. He complains that no one at HubSpot appreciates his sense of humor, and when he is offered a role writing for HBO sitcom Silicon Valley, Lyons gleefully rejoices that he can get paid to make dick jokes.
Lyons says over and over that he only stays at HubSpot for the paycheck. My big takeaway is: Don't hire people, no matter how impressive their resume may seem, who think your whole company, your entire business model, and your freaking industry is a joke.