Disrupted

The noise disrupted my nap. To break apart or alter so as to prevent normal or expected functioning: Switch to new thesaurus. References in classic literature? The capture of the world-market by the United States had disrupted the rest of the world. ROSE'S grief was a surprise to herself; there was no blinking the fact that her life was going to be far more disrupted by Martin's death than it had been by Bill's.

He could never weld the warring factions of the disrupted federation. This guy has 5 more years experience then you do - of course you report to him. From that point on, you never hear about someone without also hearing about how old they are. He complains that everyone makes him feel old while he's busy writing a book about how young and dumb they all are. He also seems pretty out of touch for a guy who was a Newsweek tech reporter. If you reported on these companies so much how did you not know what you were getting into?

He complains that there's no diversity in tech, but then gets excited when he's in an LA writers room with all dudes where he can make jokes about "huge cocks and dry vaginas". He openly mocks his company on Facebook and wonders why he gets in trouble.

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Now do I think he had some legitimate gripes about Hubspot? But I expected an experienced journalist to be able to frame it in a way that didn't make me hate him. Instead, he came across like a grumpy old man who had an axe to grind. If you're looking for insight into the current state of the tech industry, this isn't your book. You want to hear a guy talk about how great he is and complain about his coworkers for pages? This is your book. Apr 21, Philip Hollenback rated it liked it Shelves: This was a fun read that anyone in the tech industry can relate to. One reason I knocked my rating down is the "aw, shucks" tone the author takes.

He makes it sound like he found the job, worked there a few months, and then realized he would write a book about it. I call bullshit - he went in to the job knowing full well he was going to write about it. I mean, he was a tech writer for Newsweek beforehand so it's not exactly a stretch. I also felt that the author really downplayed how much of an a- This was a fun read that anyone in the tech industry can relate to. I also felt that the author really downplayed how much of an a-hole he was at work. In several places he feigns surprise that people at HubSpot got mad when he said shitty things.

He also talks about how people are just like that in newsrooms - so how could you blame him, right? But anyway, the story was entertaining and Lyons raised some good points about ageism in the tech industry. Oct 18, Bharath Ramakrishnan rated it really liked it.

Somehow, got to reading it only now. This is an especially interesting read on Tech Startups and does offer lessons such companies would be better off considering. At over 50 years of age, Dan decides to enter the world of Tech Startup by joining Hubspot — a Boston based company with a product for Inbound marketing. He has been in the media industry for long and realizes it will take some effort to fit in to a new industry.

He has kids and his wife recently left her job, which adds to the pressure to get back to work as quickly as possible. His initial days and weeks are frustrating with no direction on what is expected of him, very little dialogue with seniors, and a frat house culture gone berserk.

His work assignments are mostly around writing lame blogs. Most of the Hubspot employees are fresh out of college and have little or no real coaching. In order to keep them motivated, they are offered a fun place to work — bright colors, bean bags, beer on the job etc. At times such as Halloween and Freaky Fridays, employees can come in wearing costumes of their choice. Employees are told that they are actually making the world a better place. Employees who leave or are fired which happens quite often are announced as graduating with an informally worded mail doing the rounds.

Dan sticks out as an odd person — struggling to fit in and also makes detractors with his frankness. As part of his narrative Dan also suggests that Hubspot has a poor product, and has to spend a lot on marketing to sell it, as also to retain customers. While it is difficult to know if that is case, Hubspot has seen very strong growth and indicates that this cannot be entirely true. He also takes aim at startups in general and the trends they back. Even going by his own account, there is an indication that Dan did not try very hard to fit in either, nor did he offer suggestions constructively.

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Brian Halligan was once quoted as saying that experience was largely overvalued, prompting a bitter Facebook post by Dan, which he acknowledges might not have been the best approach. While he uses pseudo names for a few people in the book, he names Chief Marketing Officer Mike Volpe and Head of Content Joe Chernov his supervisor for part of the duration in the Epilogue who had to leave as a result of the FBI investigation though no charges were pressed.

After he gets another job, Dan resigns giving a 6 week notice but is asked to leave the very next day. There are good lessons from the book on — the need for diversity, valuing experience, promoting time tested values of respect, openness, trust, transparency, authenticity, fairness rather than a cult-like behavior and make believe.

A book I certainly recommend reading. May 27, Alan rated it it was ok Shelves: I was torn between a 1 star and a 5 star review. The 5 stars because I can't remember the last time I read a book that made me so angry. I was curious about his thoughts and experiences, both good and bad.

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Given his journalism background, I had really high expectations. I was completely let down. This book was really just a polemic about the evils of start-ups and the I was torn between a 1 star and a 5 star review. This book was really just a polemic about the evils of start-ups and their culture, both in general and a high level of specificity the company he worked at HubSpot. Is there a culture of ageism, sexism, racism, etc.

And at established companies? These issues are not start-up issues, but societal issues. Is HubSpot a weird place to work? I really have no idea - based on the author's experience, yes, but unfortunately we only got one side of the story. Is IBM a weird place to work? Perhaps if you're 25 years old - who is to know? Further, the author trashed the product, but he never said if he ever used it or not. And I'm not sure he realizes that ageism is a two-way street. He is so critical of the younger generation that is leading the company that he refuses to give them credit for building something.

He may not like what the product is intended to do, but it doesn't mean it doesn't do it well. I don't like what Marlboro does, but that doesn't it mean it doesn't do it well. What irked me the most is as a fish out of water at the start-ups I have worked at, I try hard to break the stereotype of the old cranky guy who refuses to adapt - in short, what younger employers fear.

What I do is try to learn as much as I can from my much younger co-workers I've learned tons! He criticizes the HubSpot team for feeling they are doing something "revolutionary", but why is that wrong?

Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

Everyone should feel that about their company! In short, I've worked for or with about six start-ups, not all were started by white males or even predominately male.

I never saw a nerf gun, but did have lots of candy. Some companies flourished, some didn't. All were exciting, intellectually challenging, and amazing places to work. I'm truly sorry the author didn't have the same experiences I've had. Aug 21, Hana rated it really liked it Shelves: An out-of-work, fifty-something journalist takes a job at HubSpot an actual start-up tech company in Boston.

The result of this cultural mismatch is one hilariously funny book that also makes serious points about the latest stock market bubble in companies with dubious business plans, flim-flam 'management teams', rapacious venture capital backers, and fishy accounting.

Lyons strips away the trappings of free beer and ice cream, catchy slogans and can-do pep talks to show how companies like HubS An out-of-work, fifty-something journalist takes a job at HubSpot an actual start-up tech company in Boston. Lyons strips away the trappings of free beer and ice cream, catchy slogans and can-do pep talks to show how companies like HubSpot systematically and very cleverly exploit young people who are paid terrible wages, worked to the point of burn out and then are 'graduated' aka fired the minute their performance lags.

Lyons indulges in too much personal whining in the final couple of chapters, but the book is still well worth reading for an inside look at start-up company excesses. As a former Wall Street analyst I've seen more than a few stock market bubbles and I can promise that this latest version, like all the others, will end badly. The pattern of sloppy programming, clueless marketing, careless disregard for customer responses, prioritization of Big Data harvesting and relentless focus on artificial accounting metrics I'm still recovering from Goodreads shock 1, digesting the equally obnoxious Goodreads rollout Apr 08, John Norman rated it it was amazing.

It is with some regret that I give this book 5 stars, because I have met some of the people in this book, and there is a lot here that is undoubtedly a hatchet job more about that in a moment. But it's so damn entertaining, and bears so many truths about the world of Internet startups, that I have to acknowledge that this is a "must read. If you're in college or in your 20s and think that you want to get involved with a startup, read this. Meanwhile, his subject is a marketing company his is HubSpot -- some of which are the bottom feeders of the Internet. These are companies that provide the tools to send spam and cultivate attention through devious link-baiting and other technological tricks.

Ironically, the marketing company in question centers its lead generations not on the "inbound marketing" techniques they champion, but via a call center boiler room where they exploit according to Lyons cheap "bros" as employees. Lyons also pays witness and is a victim to some very crude management and power moves that I have seen in my own time in startups. And why are these startups so badly managed? Not very well articulated here, the answer is growth.

These companies must grow or die, and the "hockey stick" of growth provides berths for a lot of people who should have been shed by such companies earlier. Indeed, Lyons's own hiring is probably evidence of the desperation of a company that is growing very fast and doesn't really understand its own business.

They think they have a place for an ex-writer for Newsweek, but really, they don't. They're acting on a fantasy. But is that surprising? Not when the company can't yet figure out their business model and how to make money. I'm a year veteran of startups, and am older that Lyons, so much of his testimony rings quite true. I have been very lucky myself and so far have not seen much age discrimination, though everywhere I see the lack of diversity he describes.

As an industry, we're trying to fix that, but it's going to take a long time. Having said all that, Lyons is incredibly naive in his own narrative. Welcome to the working world! Lyons should have picked up much earlier that there is really no place for him at the company. He sticks around, and sticks around, and his protests that he needs his paycheck strike a false note because he very swiftly gets an opportunity to write for the "Silicon Valley" series, and eventually snags a writing gig at ValleyWag.

He seems to think there is some dignity in his old job -- journalism -- where he prides himself in being able to trade dirty jokes. That's the good old place? There is a constant drumroll of negativity regarding the CMO, but the reality is that he presents very little evidence that the CMO cares at all. The insinuation is that the CMO is irresponsible, but the presentation of the facts on that score is pretty weak. Eventually the CMO is fired for events that seem to be about capturing the manuscript of this very book - but so far the records are sealed and so it's all a hypothesis.

Finally, a huge gap is the story around HubSpot's engineering and product teams. Lyons notes frequently that the software is mediocre, but yet customers stick with it. Maybe we should infer that the product is not so bad. Knowing some of these people, again I'll suggest that the perceived gaps in the software have a lot to do with growth and the stress around shifting product requirements and the competitive landscape. Once again, to the college or something reader: There are great technology startups out there that have a real mission.

And let's hope that someone writes a book as entertaining as this one that is about a company that does right by its customers, shareholders, and the public. Apr 11, John Dito rated it it was ok. Gimme a break, im 49 I work at a "unicorn" startup and this is not accurate for my company or any I know. The author chose a super douchy business segment marketing to begin with and got sold a bill of goods by guys who specialize in that.

His resentment and characterizations of the "culture' show no empathy at all for people who he points out are new to the working world. He was looking for an IPO like everyone with half a brain is and had blinders on going in. He is obviously bitter over not Gimme a break, im 49 I work at a "unicorn" startup and this is not accurate for my company or any I know.

He is obviously bitter over not seeing the death of print journalism and his embarrassing short sighted-ness. Im embarrassed to be in the same generation as this guy. Dont demonize a whole group of people over your failure. Aug 20, Stephen rated it it was amazing Recommended to Stephen by: This book is an amazing piece of investigative journalism. It took a lot of guts to write. The need to conf This book is an amazing piece of investigative journalism.

It causes them to fall into a cult-like trance of self-help guru nonsense and corporate-speak. But their need to belong is intense, and anyone who threatens their sense of self and well-being, even at the expense of economic justice, is regarded as an enemy. And that this outfit from Cambridge, Massachusetts, typical for any suburban Boston enclave of college graduates I am well aware of them , is a sham of diversity. He ends up doing what everyone would love to do, make millions of dollars from a relatively small initial investment , dollars, to be exact, something few of us have , even if that means exploiting countless nameless faces on his way to super-stardom and PowerPoint presentation glamour.

College graduates at HubSpot are taking advantage of small business owners who lack the clout to not need the advertising of blogging. Meanwhile they throw parties, eat plenty of candy and are cheery-faced through and through. This is important to bear in mind. Lyons is not anti-corporate but anti-mind control. He takes you through a year in a start-up, and by the end of it, you understand how a company is made from top to bottom. It is very impressive the way he handles being laughed at by the young millennials, especially the women who need a mutual support system much more than the men do, who are more into self-delusion and following orders to a tee.

Ordinarily this would speak well for them if they weren't hearing "lean-in" in the other ear. The epilogue is fantastic and came as a great surprise. It shows how a simple book, a memoir, a little odd page thing, can threaten a company worth a billion and a half dollars to its core. That they could feel so threatened by this speaks volumes about the culture Lyons describes.

Apr 12, Emily Lomaka rated it it was ok. HubSpot garners zero sympathy from this girl for being exposed in this fashion. I know these places exist because I worked for a "lite" version of them in a different industry. As a woman and 38 years old at the time , I felt very out of place in a company that encouraged alcohol-infused fraternization with my coworkers both on and off the clock.

Mind you I didn't feel out of place because I didn't drink I love beer! My disinterest in partaking naturally made me feel disconnected, sad and ancient, and so I left after a year for greener pastures, as they say. So yes, the HubSpot "culture" is deplorable; however, Lyons doesn't do himself any favors here. In fact, I was sincerely amused that someone who had the opportunity to write a book and shed himself in the best light possible would paint himself as such an arrogant tool.

But therein lies the problem: Lyons doesn't recognize his own haughtiness. Instead, he believes that contrary to what he's actually written all of his actions at HubSpot were perfectly thoughtful, rational and reasonable, and all of HubSpot's responses to his actions were grossly inappropriate or blown way out of proportion. For instance, if you're going to cry foul over age discrimination, maybe it's best not to belabor the point that all of your coworkers are numbskulls walking around waiting for their brains to finish forming because they're too young and stupid to be in the positions they're in, you see.

Or, maybe it's not entirely unreasonable for your boss to ask that you coordinate podcast schedules and guests with the blog and marketing teams so they can promote it, being that you work for a company that shills marketing tools. Lyons' reasoning is that since one of the idiot executives is hosting the show instead of himself, the podcast is doomed for failure and no one will listen to it so why would anyone bother putting any effort into promoting it.

Or, maybe it's not wrong that your female coworkers think it's inappropriate to discuss at work with another male colleague how you had to fire your 19 year old German au pair because your wife was uncomfortable with her presence the nudge nudge wink implication being your wife was obviously jealous because another woman in near proximity threatened her sexuality.

Nope, that's not offensive at all There are dozens of these types of encounters which Lyons documents in his book, many of which find him begrudgingly - and insincerely - apologizing to some person or another because they've overreacted to his completely rational behavior. Yeah, I don't buy it, and the fact that this isn't fiction and Lyons put this out there for the world to critique is indicative of his obtuseness. I really hate to be so hard on this guy, but I have a weak spot filled with distaste for all forms of hubris. A little humility goes a long way, bro.

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