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  • Ludicrous Misadventures into the Tech Start-Up Bubble
  • By: Dan Lyons
  • Narrated by: Dan Lyons
  • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (141 ratings)

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By: Dan Lyons
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The shocking and hilarious New York Times best-selling exposé of a new age of excess in Silicon Valley.

Dan Lyons was technology editor at Newsweek for years, a magazine writer at the top of his profession. One Friday morning he received a phone call: his job no longer existed. Fifty years old, and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was unemployed and facing financial oblivion.

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 nebulous role of 'marketing fellow'. What could possibly go wrong?

What follows is a hilarious and excoriating account of Dan's time at the start-up and a revealing window onto the dysfunctional culture that prevails in a world flush with cash and devoid of experience. Filled with stories of meaningless jargon, teddy bears at meetings, push-up competitions and all-night parties, this uproarious tale is also a trenchant analysis of the dysfunctional start-up world, a de facto conspiracy between those who start companies and those who fund them. It is a world where bad ideas are rewarded with hefty investments, where companies blow money lavishing perks on their postcollegiate workforces, and where everybody is trying to hang on just long enough to cash out with a fortune.

©2016 Dan Lyons (P)2016 Hachette Audio

Critic Reviews

''The best book about Silicon Valley today.'' (The Los Angeles Times)
''Cooly observant.... Splendidly weird...[Lyons] couldn't have written a tastier ending, even for HBO'' (The New York Times)
''Wildly entertaining.... Lyons has injected a dose of sanity into a world gone mad.'' (The Sunday Times)

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A Great Insight to A Juvenile & Toxic World

A really interesting and insightful dive into a murky world filled with incompetent idiots. I found it fascinating, disturbing and madding all at the same time. How can anyone invest in these hairbrained Ponzi schemes? So many of these startups are just built on nothing but hot air with the immoral aim of building up the value and escaping before it all implodes.

One of the best books I've listened to this year!

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Funny and insightful

Dan paints and interesting and exciting look at what it’s like to work inside a unicorn. Certainly think twice about using hubspot!

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Totally WASTAGE of Time.

Author Didn’t talk even one words about Disrupted marketing. Talk totally shit about his work life in hubspot.

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Tech startup from critical viewpoint

A perspective of a tech startup from an ex-journalist with a quick dry wit. The story sheds light on the culture of age-ism, disorganisation and the excruciating harassment of the author from one executive. The story ends with the question of whether we can trust tech companies with our personal information.

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Thoroughly enjoyable

Loved the delivery and the use of the English language which would be lost on most hub spotter's. Very entertaining.

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Entertaining but naive

As someone approaching 50 the themes in this book were worrying, thought provoking and often entertaining. My only criticism was the author sometimes very naive and put often put himself in difficult positions. However would definitely recommend as his insights into Silicon Valley were excellent and definitely ludicrous!

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Great story, highly negative

Engaging author and story - I'd recommend it.

The author is sometimes hypocritical and overly negative but he gives the reader much to take away.

People working in inbound marketing or tech will disagree with him on many points but it's an interesting look inside Hubspot.

Dan writes a great story that packs alot of bite but also offers plenty of value.

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Could not stop listening

Do yourself a favor and listen to this one of the best tech insights I've read so far

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this book opened my eyes! must read! author is 🙂

amazing!
author is entertaining and smart do not skip this! read it now! top read of 2017!

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thoroughly enjoyed this book

Being an ex Hubspot customer this book explains a lot about the company and service we experienced.

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