Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.85 (922 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1478939435 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
His job? Gone. Why not him? One tech company, flush with $100 million, offered a pile of stock options. For years Dan Lyons was a leading tech journalist-- until the Friday his Newsweek boss called. The office vibe was frat house meets cult compound: shower pods became hook-up dens, nerf-gun fights broke out at lunch, and absent bosses specialized in cryptic, jargon-filled emails. What could go wrong? His new employer made the world a better place-- by selling email spam. In the middle of this sat Lyons, old enough to be his coworkers' father.. For years he'd seen people strike gold in the start-up boom. Fifty years old with two kids, Lyons was screwed. Then an idea hit
Charlie White said Sobering, Shocking and Hilarious Look at a Utopian Hellhole Rings True on Every Page. This book affected me at a profound level. I was the oldest employee at various startups for a decade, and Dan Lyons accurately described the absurdity and frustration I encountered at all of them. He crafted his story so well that I felt transported back to that special hell of a fifty-something writer toiling away for years in a frat-house sweatshop with a "team" of ill-prepared (yet oh-so-special) snowflakes.If you find yourself considering employment at a similar company, and if you're "o. Wildly entertaining AND important Social Science Reader Disrupted not only wildly entertains; it also sheds light on some troubling issues in the startup and tech cultures.Entertainment: Disrupted caused me to laugh out loud more often than any other book has ever caused me to laugh out loud. Would you expect less from a writer for the TV show Silicon Valley? Reading Disrupted is like binge-watching SV, only this company is a REAL place, which makes it even better.Important social issues: Disrupted also raises a couple of troubling issues that sur. This is exactly like the start up i most recently worked for This is the funniest book I've read in years. Anyone who works (or has worked) at a start-up and who understands the forced corporate culture should read this. This is exactly like the start up i most recently worked for, even down to the names and titles. I was literally spitting out my tea at my desk while I laughed. Ever had to take a personality test and then get stuck in a room talking about it for 1/2 day while your work piles up? Dan talks about it and summarizes it perfectly.
This not only is a real (albeit virtually ignored) issue at tech companies today, but is going to become a much larger one as digital natives continue to age."Dan Primack, Fortune"Hilarious and eye-opening."Business Insider"It would be incomplete to classify Disrupted as merely an Office Space-esque critique of Corporate America. It also serves as social commentary about the way that more senior employees are viewed and valued in a hyper-aggressive startup culture hell bent on an IPO. Like the show 'Silicon Valley,' Disrupted nails the workings of spastic, hypocritical, delusional tech culture."New York Post"Laugh-out-loud funny."Newsweek"Read this book if you work or invest in tech and, in particular
His fiction has earned both a prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship and the Playboy College Fiction Prize. He is a co-producer and co-writer for the HBO series Silicon Valley. Previously, he was technology editor at Newsweek and the creator of the groundbreaking viral