"Disrupted by Dan Lyons is the best book about Silicon Valley today."---Los Angeles Times
"Hysterical."---Kara Swisher, Recode
"Wildly entertaining."---Ashlee Vance, New York Times-bestselling author of Elon Musk
For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession--until one Friday morning when he received a phone call: Poof. His job no longer existed. "I think they just want to hire younger people," his boss at Newsweek told him. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was, in a word, screwed. Then an idea hit. Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, was flush with $100 million in venture capital. They offered Dan a pile of stock options for the vague role of "marketing fellow." What could go wrong?
HubSpotters were true believers: They were making the world a better place ... by selling email spam. The office vibe was frat house meets cult compound: The party began at four thirty on Friday and lasted well into the night; "shower pods" became hook-up dens; a push-up club met at noon in the lobby, while nearby, in the "content factory," Nerf gun fights raged. Groups went on "walking meetings," and Dan's absentee boss sent cryptic emails about employees who had "graduated" (read: been fired). In the middle of all this was Dan, exactly twice the age of the average HubSpot employee, and literally old enough to be the father of most of his co-workers, sitting at his desk on his bouncy-ball "chair."
Mixed in with Lyons's uproarious tale of his rise and fall at Hubspot 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 lavishing perks on their post-collegiate workforces, and where everybody is trying to hang on just long enough to reach an IPO and cash out.
With a cast of characters that includes devilish angel investors, fad-chasing venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and "wantrapreneurs," bloggers and brogrammers, social climbers and sociopaths, Disrupted is a gripping and definitive account of life in the (second) tech bubble.
作者简介
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Dan Lyons is a novelist, journalist, and screenwriter. He is currently a co-producer and -writer for the HBO series Silicon Valley. Previously, Lyons was technology editor at Newsweek and the creator of the groundbreaking viral blog "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs" (AKA "Fake Steve Jobs"). Lyons has written for the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Wired. He lives i...
Dan Lyons is a novelist, journalist, and screenwriter. He is currently a co-producer and -writer for the HBO series Silicon Valley. Previously, Lyons was technology editor at Newsweek and the creator of the groundbreaking viral blog "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs" (AKA "Fake Steve Jobs"). Lyons has written for the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Wired. He lives in Winchester, MA.
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“I tell my board as little as possible,” he says. “I treat them like mushrooms, I keep them in the dark and feed them shit. I don't want them meddling in my business and telling me what to do.” (查看原文)
... a lot of new tech companies are really not about technology. They are doing social media, or games, and that business is a lot like the entertainment business. (查看原文)
Now I understand why this book is controversial, even among my peers who are supposed to be more objective than average: besides exposing obvious wrong-doings like power harassment and ageism, and the...Now I understand why this book is controversial, even among my peers who are supposed to be more objective than average: besides exposing obvious wrong-doings like power harassment and ageism, and the weird trends of frat house and cult-like culture, it criticizes almost every role in the start-up business. Nobody is innocent. I guess that's true.(展开)
The book is really entertaining and has the same flavor of sarcasm as the show 'Silicon Valley' Dan has produced. I like the way he viewed the bubbled start-up world from a different perspective. A lot of people who are deeply entrenched in this bubble enjo...
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... a lot of new tech companies are really not about technology. They are doing social media, or games, and that business is a lot like the entertainment business. 出自作者对科技业界的年龄 / 性别歧视问题的思考。后面还有很多细节叙述。(3回应)
2017-09-06 18:23:21
... a lot of new tech companies are really not about technology. They are doing social media, or games, and that business is a lot like the entertainment business.引自第154页
“I tell my board as little as possible,” he says. “I treat them like mushrooms, I keep them in the dark and feed them shit. I don't want them meddling in my business and telling me what to do.” 语出主角的一个技术出身的朋友,是一个低调、稳健、还算成功的 CEO。
2017-09-06 04:08:15
“I tell my board as little as possible,” he says. “I treat them like mushrooms, I keep them in the dark and feed them shit. I don't want them meddling in my business and telling me what to do.”引自第112页
“I tell my board as little as possible,” he says. “I treat them like mushrooms, I keep them in the dark and feed them shit. I don't want them meddling in my business and telling me what to do.” 语出主角的一个技术出身的朋友,是一个低调、稳健、还算成功的 CEO。
2017-09-06 04:08:15
“I tell my board as little as possible,” he says. “I treat them like mushrooms, I keep them in the dark and feed them shit. I don't want them meddling in my business and telling me what to do.”引自第112页
... a lot of new tech companies are really not about technology. They are doing social media, or games, and that business is a lot like the entertainment business. 出自作者对科技业界的年龄 / 性别歧视问题的思考。后面还有很多细节叙述。(3回应)
2017-09-06 18:23:21
... a lot of new tech companies are really not about technology. They are doing social media, or games, and that business is a lot like the entertainment business.引自第154页
... a lot of new tech companies are really not about technology. They are doing social media, or games, and that business is a lot like the entertainment business. 出自作者对科技业界的年龄 / 性别歧视问题的思考。后面还有很多细节叙述。(3回应)
2017-09-06 18:23:21
... a lot of new tech companies are really not about technology. They are doing social media, or games, and that business is a lot like the entertainment business.引自第154页
“I tell my board as little as possible,” he says. “I treat them like mushrooms, I keep them in the dark and feed them shit. I don't want them meddling in my business and telling me what to do.” 语出主角的一个技术出身的朋友,是一个低调、稳健、还算成功的 CEO。
2017-09-06 04:08:15
“I tell my board as little as possible,” he says. “I treat them like mushrooms, I keep them in the dark and feed them shit. I don't want them meddling in my business and telling me what to do.”引自第112页
0 有用 Nicole 2017-07-23 21:26:48
太棒了,真实的矽谷新创世界,非看不可
0 有用 Whyme Lyu 2017-09-07 08:53:04
发现这书之后 N 口气读完了。推荐给互联网业界同行们,无论什么职位,无论身在中外,都可以一读。可以当作是职业喜剧小说,或者是行业现状报告,一书两读。
0 有用 白鹿鹿🦌 2020-01-10 15:55:11
audiobook版本 - 10% 对startup的观察很有意思 + 10% 被迫害妄想症 + 50% 办公室政治 + 30% 一个新闻从业者试图消化他的新环境并保持幽默感
1 有用 落。 2016-05-04 11:09:39
Now I understand why this book is controversial, even among my peers who are supposed to be more objective than average: besides exposing obvious wrong-doings like power harassment and ageism, and the... Now I understand why this book is controversial, even among my peers who are supposed to be more objective than average: besides exposing obvious wrong-doings like power harassment and ageism, and the weird trends of frat house and cult-like culture, it criticizes almost every role in the start-up business. Nobody is innocent. I guess that's true. (展开)
0 有用 funny※kid╬ 2018-09-02 09:26:18
entertaining crazy world
0 有用 哒哒马蹄来 2020-01-30 19:28:19
的确揭露了一些entrepreneurship式管理的问题。但是作者在半百从新闻记者到startup marketing部门的背景也使他很难适应这种新式企业文化吧,过多complaint。
0 有用 白鹿鹿🦌 2020-01-10 15:55:11
audiobook版本 - 10% 对startup的观察很有意思 + 10% 被迫害妄想症 + 50% 办公室政治 + 30% 一个新闻从业者试图消化他的新环境并保持幽默感
0 有用 karenkaren 2019-05-08 19:48:20
不光tech startup,现在很多小公司都这德行。思想境界不高却很功利的年轻人当道的小企业的管理方式跟这很相似,洗脑,口是心非
0 有用 funny※kid╬ 2018-09-02 09:26:18
entertaining crazy world
0 有用 藕粽 2018-03-21 06:33:08
Not sure what to comment