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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Traditional journalists such as the author have been compelled to reinvent themselves in today's media industry.
Chapter 3: Joining a start-up’s world at fifty was a strange new experience for Lyons, yet he remained willing to adapt and learn quickly.
Chapter 4: HubSpot’s culture brimmed with peculiar jargon and odd, cult-like workplace practices and rituals.
Chapter 5: HubSpot’s work environment proved quite a culture shock for an older employee like Lyons to navigate.
Chapter 6: Lyons began encountering conflict after he proposed changes aimed at improvement.
Chapter 7: Start-ups often entrench mediocrity and harsh working conditions in the rush to scale fast.
Chapter 8: HubSpot employees overlooked sparse benefits and shaky job security, since the company made them feel special inside.
Chapter 9: Despite poor products and grim forecasts, tech companies like HubSpot can still succeed by generating powerful, persuasive buzz alone.
Chapter 10: Lyons’s skill at generating buzz helped him cope with HubSpot’s ageist culture and land a promising new job.
Description
Disrupted (2016) demystifies the culture and practices of tech start-ups by taking a revealing, behind-the-scenes look at Boston’s HubSpot software company. After 25 years as a technology journalist, Dan Lyons was fired from Newsweek and accepted a new job at a start-up. These blinks follow Lyons’s bumpy and humorous journey as he tries to navigate a weird new world filled with candy walls and other bizarre instances of HubSpottiness.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone curious about how technology start-ups operate
- Potential investors in any start-up
- People who work for a small business or start-up