Disrupted

Dan Lyons was a tech journalist at the top of his profession. But one morning, he heard that his job at Newsweek magazine no longer existed. At the age of fifty, Dan was unemployed and facing financial oblivion. Then the idea hit. Why not join the world he reported on?

What follows is an excoriating and hilarious account of Dan's time at tech start-up HubSpot, and a revealing window onto a dysfunctional culture flush with cash and devoid of experience. Filled with stories of meaningless jargon, teddy bears at meetings, push-up competitions and all-night parties, this is a world where bad ideas are rewarded with hefty investments; where sexism and ageism is rife; and where everybody is trying to hang on just long enough to cash out with a fortune.

• Prologue: Welcome to the Content Factory

1. Beached White Male
2. When the Ducks Quack
3. What's a HubSpot?
4. The Happy!! Awesome!! Start-Up Cult
5. HubSpeak
6. Our Cult Leader Has a Really Awesome Teddy Bear
7. We Need to Make the Blog a Lot More Dumberer
8. The Bozo Explosion
9. In Which I Make a Very Big Mistake
10. Life in the Boiler Room
11. OMG the Halloween Party!!!
12. The New Work: Employees as Widgets
13. The Ron Burgundy of Tech
14. Meet the New Boss
15. Grandpa Buzz
16. Ritual Humiliation as Rehabilitation
17. A Disturbance in the Farce
18. A House of Cards?
19. Go West, Old Man
20. Glassholes
21. Excuse Me, but Would You Please Get the Fuck Out of Our Company?
22. Inbound and Down
23. Escape Velocity
24. If I Only Had a HEART
25. Graduation Day

• Epilogue

This is supposed to be an experienced journalist deep dive into an Internet startup.

The destructive nature of the startup is described in sufficient detail and the journalists bewilderment is obvious.

It is supposed to be funny, but was mostly a lot of words stringed together to make a book.

Not bad. but nothing I should recommend.