A Tech Reporter Joined HubSpot and Got a Crash Course in Start-Up Culture

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 20, 2016

After being told at age 50 that his job at Newsweek no longer existed,Dan Lyons, writer and current co-producer for the HBO Series “Silicon Valley,” decided to join the Boston-based startup, HubSpot. In Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble, he takes us inside the wild world of youth-centric, content driven start-up culture, not just at HubSpot, but at established tech giants like Facebook and Amazon.

 

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