About the Book: Disrupted
Dan Lyons was Technology Editor at Newsweek Magazine 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