Daniel Lyons | |
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Born | 1960 (age 63–64) Massachusetts |
Education | University of Michigan (MFA) |
Occupation | Columnist |
Spouse | Alexandra Lyons |
Children | Twins |
Website | https://www.danlyons.io/ |
Daniel Lyons (born 1960) is an American writer. He was a senior editor at Forbes magazine and a writer at Newsweek before becoming editor of ReadWrite. In March 2013 he left ReadWrite to accept a position at HubSpot.[1]
Lyons began his career with a book of short stories, The Last Good Man (1993), a novel, Dog Days (1998), and a fictional biography, Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs (2007). Lyons then began writing non-fiction books: Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble (2016), Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us (2018) and STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World (2023).[2]
Under the pseudonym "Fake Steve Jobs," he also wrote The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, a popular blog and parody of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. He was a writer and coproducer[3] on HBO's Silicon Valley and wrote the script for the May 2015 episode "White Hat/Black Hat"[4] while on a 14-week break from HubSpot in 2014.[5]
Dan Lyons authored the book Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start Up Bubble (2016) about his time at the Boston, MA startup HubSpot.[6] The book was a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller.[7] Readers responded to the book with numerous letters which inspired his next book: Lab Rats (2018).[8] He has won other literary awards including the 1992 AWP Award for Short Fiction[9] (for his story "The First Snow") and the Playboy College Fiction Award (for "The Greyhound").[10][11]
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