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For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a leading tech journalist--until the Friday his Newsweek boss called. His job? Gone. Fifty years old with two young kids, Lyons was, in a word, screwed. Then an idea hit. For years he'd seen people strike gold in the start-up boom. Why not him? One tech company, flush with $100 million, offered a pile of stock options. What could go wrong?His new employer made the world a better place...by selling email spam. The office vibe was frat house meets cult compound: shower pods became hook-up dens; Nerf gun fights broke out at lunch; and absent bosses specialized in cryptic, jargon-filled emails. In the middle of this sat Lyons, old enough to be his coworkers' father.With portraits of devilish angel investors, fad-chasing venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and wantrapreneurs, bloggers and brogrammers, Disrupted is a hilarious story of self-reinvention and a definitive account of life in the tech bubble.

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Dan Lyons is a novelist, journalist, and screenwriter. He is a co-producer and co-writer for the HBO series Silicon Valley. Previously, he was technology editor at Newsweek and the creator of the groundbreaking viral blog The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. He has written for the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Wired. His fiction has earned both a prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship and the Playboy College Fiction Prize. He has a BA from Bradford College and an MFA from the University of Michigan.

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