Disrupted : my misadventure in the start-up bubble

Lyons, Daniel 1960- (author.).

Summary: A memoir of life inside the tech bubble by a writer and co-producer for "Silicon Valley" describes how, after losing his magazine writing job, he took a position with a tech company rife with cultish millennials, absent bosses, and venture-capital amenities.

Item details

ISBN: 9780316306089
ISBN: 0316306088
ISBN: 9780316306072
Physical Description: print
x, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Hachette Books, 2016.
Copyright: ©2016

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Welcome to the Content Factory -- Beached white male -- When the ducks quack -- What's a HubSpot? -- The happy!! Awesome!! Start-up cult -- HubSpeak -- Our cult leader has a really awesome teddy bear -- We need to make the blog a lot more dumberer -- The Bozo explosion -- In which I make a very big mistake -- Life in the boiler room -- OMG the Halloween party!!! -- The new work : employees as widgets -- The Ron Burgundy of tech -- Meet the new boss -- Grandpa buzz -- Ritual humiliation as rehabilitation -- A disturbance in the farce -- A house of cards? -- Go West, old man -- Glassholes -- Excuse me, but would you please get the fuck out of our company? -- Inbound and down -- Escape velocity -- If I only had a heart -- Graduation day.