Keynote: Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble – Dan Lyons, Fortune Columnist & Author
Keynote: Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble – Dan Lyons, Fortune Columnist & Author
For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession — until one Friday morning he received a phone call and learned that his job no longer existed. Then an idea hit: Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a hot startup in Boston, offered Dan a pile of stock options and the chance to pursue his start-up dream. What could go wrong? In a word, everything. In this talk Dan tells the uproarious tale of his less-than-triumphant attempt to start a new career in his fifties — and shares a few thoughts about what’s gone wrong with the tech industry during the second dotcom bubble.
About Dan Lyons
Dan Lyons’s latest book, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Startup Bubble, became an instant New York Timesbest-seller when it was published in April 2016. The Los Angeles Times called it “the best book about Silicon Valley today.”Dan writes a monthly column for Fortune magazine about technology and transformation. Previously he was technology editor at Newsweek and a technology reporter at Forbes. In 2006, Dan created The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, a blog that evolved into a novel and a cable TV comedy show, Icon, which never made it into production but led to his work on HBO’s hit comedy Silicon Valley, where he spent two seasons as a screenwriter.
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