Summary of Disrupted: by Dan Lyons | Includes Analysis
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Disrupted by Dan Lyons is a memoir about Lyons’s experiences as a middle-aged career journalist who takes a job in marketing at a startup. For years, Lyons wrote for Newsweek about technology and was well-known for starting a popular satirical blog about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. At age 51, he lost his job in the magazine’s downsizing. He started looking for another job right away to support his young children and his wife, who had just quit her job for health reasons.
The media industry had changed substantially from the time Lyons first started working as a journalist, and he found it difficult to find another job. He accepted a position as editor-in-chief of the news website ReadWrite, which required a lot of travel, and noticed his journalist colleagues transitioning to marketing departments at startups to take advantage of the booming startup economy. Lyons decided to pursue the same career change…
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Disrupted by Dan Lyons is a memoir about Lyons’s experiences as a middle-aged career journalist who takes a job in marketing at a startup. For years, Lyons wrote for Newsweek about technology and was well-known for starting a popular satirical blog about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. At age 51, he lost his job in the magazine’s downsizing. He started looking for another job right away to support his young children and his wife, who had just quit her job for health reasons.
The media industry had changed substantially from the time Lyons first started working as a journalist, and he found it difficult to find another job. He accepted a position as editor-in-chief of the news website ReadWrite, which required a lot of travel, and noticed his journalist colleagues transitioning to marketing departments at startups to take advantage of the booming startup economy. Lyons decided to pursue the same career change.
Lyons responded to a job posting for a content creator position at HubSpot, a cloud marketing software company that already had received $100 million in venture capital. He met with a series of HubSpot’s executives including the lead of content creation, pseudonym Wingman; the chief marketing officer, pseudonym Cranium, and the two founders, Chief Executive Officer Brian Halligan and Chief Technology Officer Dharmesh Shah. They asked Lyons to take a temporary marketing fellow position to improve the company’s blog, and he agreed.
HubSpot’s culture emphasized supportiveness, positivity, and spontaneity. Despite the fact that HubSpot’s