Dan Lyons: ‘It made me confront myself… I’d never felt old before’
by Andrew Anthony from Technology | The Guardian on (#1SMS4)
US journalist Dan Lyons found fame with his spoof blog of Apple boss Steve Jobs - but disaster struck when he joined the Silicon Valley circus himself
Dan Lyons is the former Forbes magazine senior editor who found online fame as the writer behind the parodic Fake Steve Jobs blog. When he lost his job at Newsweek in 2013, he decided to join New York tech startup HubSpot as a "marketing fellow".
It didn't end well, and Lyons has now written a book about the experience called Disrupted: Ludicrous Misadventures in the Tech Start-Up Bubble. He has also been a writer on satirical sitcom Silicon Valley.
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